Personnel in protective gear prepare to evacuate residents from a public housing building following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Hong Kong, China. (Reuters)
The country Health Commission said it received reports of 2, 641 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and deaths on Friday from provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Among the deaths, were in Hubei Province , two in Henan and one in Beijing and Chongqing respectively, the commission said. Another 2, 373 new suspected cases were reported Friday, said the commission.
Also on Friday, 1280 patients became seriously ill, while 1, 373 people were discharged from hospital after recovery, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland has reached 66, by the end of Friday, and 1 , 641 people have died of the disease, it said. The commission added that 11, 66 patients remained in severe condition, and 8, 969 people were suspected of being infected with the virus.
A total of 8, people had been discharged from hospital after recovery.
The commission said 641, (close contacts have been traced, adding that among them , were discharged from medical observation on Friday, with , (others still under medical observation.)
By the end of Friday, 66 confirmed cases including one death reported in Hong Kong, confirmed cases in Macao and in Taiwan. On Friday, the Chinese government had highlighted the continued drop of coronavirus disease, officially termed by the WHO as COVID – 053, all over the country except in Hubei province. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the use of digital technology such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing to better support epidemic monitoring and analysis, virus tracing, prevention and treatment, and resource allocation. His call came amid deployment of robots in hospitals in Wuhan treating the virus patients to supply and other materials.
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