“The State Committee for Health received from 31 provinces (districts, cities of central subordination) information on 76 thousand 288 confirmed cases of infection with a new type of coronavirus, including 53 thousand 284 people who are currently ill (11 thousand 477 people are in serious condition) , 20 thousand 659 people were discharged from hospitals and 2345 died, “the state committee said in a statement.
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Over the past day, 397 new cases of infection were detected across the country, 2393 people were discharged from hospitals, 109 died (106 of them in Hubei Province).
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Currently, 1361 cases have been registered with suspicion of a new type of coronavirus, 113.5 thousand people who had close contact with patients are under medical supervision.
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In Hubei Province, in the focus of the epidemic, 366 cases of infection were confirmed per day (314 in Wuhan), 1,767 people were discharged (992 in Wuhan), 106 deaths were recorded (90 in Wuhan). Since the beginning of the epidemic in the province, a total of 63 thousand 454 cases of infection have been identified, 47 thousand 647 people are currently ill, of which 10 thousand 892 people are in serious condition.
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Separately, 68 cases of infection were detected in Hong Kong (of which two people died, six recovered), ten people were found in Macau (six of them have already been discharged), 26 people were infected in Taiwan (one of them died and two were cured).
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On December 31, 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about an outbreak of unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in the central part of the country (Hubei Province). Experts have identified the causative agent of the disease – this is a new coronavirus. WHO recognized the outbreak as an emergency of international importance and gave the disease its official name – COVID-2019.
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