China News Service, February 29th. According to the website of the National Health and Medical Commission, at 04:00 on February 28th, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 427 new confirmed cases and new deaths. 47 cases (45 in Hubei, 1 in Beijing, and 1 in Henan), and 248 suspected cases were newly added.

On the same day, 2885 new cases were cured and discharged, 10193 close contacts were released from medical observation, and 288 severe cases were reduced.

As of 24:00 on February 28, according to reports from 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 37,414 confirmed cases (of which 7,664 were severe cases), 39,002 were cured and discharged, and 2,835 were dead. A total of 79,251 confirmed cases have been reported, and 1,418 suspected cases have been reported. A total of 658,587 close contacts were traced, and 58,233 close contacts were still in medical observation.

There were 423 newly diagnosed cases in Hubei (420 in Wuhan), 2492 cured cases (1726 in Wuhan), 45 deaths (37 in Wuhan), and 34,715 confirmed cases (28,836 in Wuhan). Among them, 7370 cases were severe cases (6585 cases in Wuhan). A total of 28,895 discharged patients were cured (17,552 in Wuhan), a total of 2,727 deaths (2,169 in Wuhan), and a total of 66,337 confirmed cases (48,557 in Wuhan). There were 159 new suspected cases (114 in Wuhan) and 1171 suspected cases (788 in Wuhan).

A total of 138 confirmed cases were reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 94 cases in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (30 cases discharged, 2 deaths), 10 cases in Macau Special Administrative Region (8 cases discharged), 34 cases in Taiwan (9 cases discharged, 1 case died) ).