China News Service, March 1. According to the website of the National Health and Medical Commission, from February 04:00 to February 29, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 573 new confirmed cases and new deaths. There were 35 cases (34 in Hubei and 1 in Henan), and 132 suspected cases were newly added.

On the same day, 2,623 cases were cured and discharged, 8,620 were close contacts of medical observation, and 299 cases of severe cases were reduced.

As of 24:00 on February 29, according to reports from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 35,329 confirmed cases (of which 7,365 were severe cases), 41,825 were cured and discharged, and 2,870 were dead A total of 79,824 confirmed cases have been reported, and there are 851 suspected cases. A total of 660,716 close contacts were traced, and 51,856 close contacts were still in medical observation.

There were 570 new confirmed cases in Hubei (565 in Wuhan), 2292 new cured cases (1675 in Wuhan), 34 new deaths (26 in Wuhan), and 32959 confirmed cases (27,700 in Wuhan). Among them, 7107 were severe cases (6393 in Wuhan). A total of 31,187 discharged patients were cured (19,227 in Wuhan), a total of 2,761 deaths (2,195 in Wuhan), and a total of 66,907 confirmed cases (49,122 in Wuhan). There were 64 new suspected cases (50 in Wuhan) and 646 suspected cases (393 in Wuhan).

A total of 144 confirmed cases were reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 95 cases in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (33 cases discharged, 2 deaths), 10 cases in Macau Special Administrative Region (8 cases discharged), 39 cases in Taiwan (9 cases discharged, 1 case died ).