The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Monday afternoon a press release on the latest SARS situation on the Chinese mainland.

From 10:00 am June 8 to 10:00 am June 9, the Chinese mainland reported no new SARS case, 129 patients recovered and 1 death. Guangdong reported the 1 death. Patients recovered included 110 from Beijing, 8 from Inner Mongolia, 6 from Shanxi, 3 from Jilin, and 1 each from Hebei and Guangxi.

From 10:00 am June 8 to 10:00 am June 9, Guangdong reported 1 new suspected case.

From 10:00 am June 8 to 10:00 am June 9, the Chinese mainland also reported 106 misdiagnosed suspected cases, of which 99 were from Beijing, 2 each from Inner Mongolia and Jilin, and 1 each from Jiangsu, Guangdong and Shaanxi. By 10:00 am June 9, the Chinese mainland had a total of 559 suspected cases.

From 10:00 am May 21 to 10:00 am June 9, the Chinese mainland reported a total of 146 diagnosed SARS cases (including 23 new diagnosed cases and 123 patients who used to be suspected cases).

Of these figures,

Beijing reported 18 new diagnosed cases and confirmed 89 suspected cases as SARS patients

Hebei reported 3 new diagnosed cases and confirmed 13 suspected cases as SARS patients

Shanxi reported 2 new diagnosed cases and confirmed 5 suspected cases as SARS patients

Inner Mongolia reported no new diagnosed case but confirmed 8 suspected cases as SARS patients

Liaoning reported no new diagnosed case but confirmed 4 suspected cases as SARS patients

Sichuan reported no new diagnosed case but confirmed 3 suspected cases as SARS patients

Shanghai reported no new diagnosed case but confirmed 1 suspected case as SARS patient

Now 795 patients are receiving treatment in hospitals.

According to the statistics standard of WHO, by 10:00 am June 9, 7 provinces on the Chinese mainland had reported SARS cases. Shanghai had reported no new diagnosed case for more than 15 days; Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Hebei had reported no new diagnosed case for more than 10 days; and Beijing and Liaoning had reported no new diagnosed case for 6 days.

(China.org.cn June 9, 2003)