Chinese hospitals discharge 892 recovered patients of coronavirus infection

Beijing
February 05, 2020, 12:15 PM
by Xinhua/UNB

UNB News
Beijing
Publish- February 05, 2020, 12:15 PM
Xinhua/UNB
Update- February 05, 2020, 12:19 PM

Chinese hospitals discharge 892 recovered patients of coronavirus infection

Lin Yubo (L), liaison of the medical team, gives his 8-year-old daughter a hug before leaving for Hubei Province in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. A medical team comprised of 100 clinical nurses in Fujian left for Wuhan on Tuesday to aid the novel coronavirus control efforts there.

A total of 892 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Tuesday, Chinese health authorities announced Wednesday.

Tuesday saw 262 people walk out of the hospital after recovery (125 in Hubei), the National Health Commission said in its daily report.

By the end of Tuesday, a total of 490 people had died of the disease and 24,324 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection had been reported in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in China.