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Ministry of Health Press Release (May 3) on SARS
The Press Office under the Ministry of Health published Saturday afternoon a press release in the latest SARS situation on the Chinese mainland. On May 3, 15 provinces reported to find new SARS cases, of which, 6 provinces reported both new SARS cases and new suspected cases, 1 province reported new SARS cases, and 8 provinces reported new suspected cases, and the remaining 16 provinces reported no case. By 10:00 am of May 3, 26 provinces have reported SARS cases. So far, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region have not found any SARS cases. In addition, Fujian Province has reported no new case for 25 days while Jiangxi and Shandong provinces have reported no new cases for 9 days.

From 10:00 am of May 2 to 10:00 am of May 3, China reported 181 new cases (including 33 medical workers), 34 patients recovered and 9 deaths. Of the 181 cases, 94 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients.

Of these figures:

Beijing reported 114 new cases (of which 48 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 6 patients recovered and 5 deaths

Tianjin reported 18 new cases (of which 16 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 1 patient recovered and 1 death

Hebei reported 9 new cases (of which 6 used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients)

Shanxi reported 18 new cases (of which 14 used to be a suspected case and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 1 patient recovered and 2 deaths

Inner Mongolia reported 10 new cases (all of them used to be suspected cases and now are confirmed as SARS patients), 1 recovered, and 1 death

Guangdong reported 11 new cases, and 25 recovered

Ningxia reported 1 new case

By 10:00 am of May 3, China had a total of 3,971 SARS cases (including 810 medical workers), which included 1,406 patients who had recovered and been discharged from hospital and 190 deaths. Beijing reported 9 patients (including 1 medical workers) who had been falsely diagnosed with SARS.

From 10:00 am of May 2 to 10:00 am of May 3, China also reported 251 new suspected cases, including 104 from Beijing, 16 from Tianjin, 8 from Hebei, 24 from Shanxi, 13 from Inner Mongolia, 3 from Shanghai, 4 from Jiangsu, 1 from Anhui, 1 from Henan, 1 from Hunan, 69 from Guangdong, 3 from Sichuan, 3 from Shaanxi, and 1 from Xinjiang.

From 10:00 am of May 2 to 10:00 am of May 3, China reported 63 patients who had been falsely diagnosed with suspected cases, of which, 31 from Beijing, 13 from Inner Mongolia, 6 from Guangdong, 5 from Shanxi, 3 from Tianjin, 1 from Shanghai, 1 from Hunan, 1 from Guangxi, and 1 from Xinjiang. By 10:00 am of May 3, China had a total of 2,553 suspected cases.

(China.org.cn May 3, 2003)

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