(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) Looking at the epidemic from the change of data: China's 26 provinces reported overseas imported cases and broke 930,000 global cases
China News Agency, Beijing, April 2 (Guo Chaokai) According to official data from the National Health Committee of China, as of April 1, 26 provinces in China have reported confirmed imported cases abroad, and the number of confirmed cases has fallen below 2000. At present, the total number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the world has exceeded 930,000.
As of 24:00 on April 1, according to reports from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 1,863 confirmed cases (including 429 severe cases) and a total of 3,318 death cases; a total of 76,408 discharged patients were cured. Cases, a total of 81,589 confirmed cases were reported, and the proportion of cured and discharged patients continued to rise, reaching 93.6%.
It is worth noting that there were 35 newly confirmed cases nationwide on the 1st, all of which were imported cases from abroad. At present, China has reported a total of 841 confirmed overseas imported cases and 701 currently confirmed overseas imported cases. On the same day, there were 55 new cases of asymptomatic infections nationwide, of which 17 cases were imported asymptomatic infections abroad; 9 cases were converted to confirmed cases on that day (9 cases were imported from overseas), and 1,075 cases were still under medical observation.
From a local perspective, from 00:00 to 24:00 on March 31, the number of newly confirmed cases, new suspected cases, and existing suspected cases in Hubei Province were all zero. There are currently 1132 confirmed cases in Hubei, a cumulative total of 63,471 discharged patients, a total of 3,199 deaths, and a total of 67,802 confirmed cases.
Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Committee of China and deputy director of the Propaganda Department, said on April 2 that 9 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps across the country had no local confirmed cases, suspected cases and close contacts. Since March 12, the number of newly-diagnosed cases in the country on that day has been less than five. As of April 1, 26 provinces reported confirmed imported cases abroad, from 47 countries. It is necessary to strengthen community prevention and control, do well in exhaustive management and epidemiological investigations, and implement prevention and control measures from household to individual.
The safety of Chinese students studying abroad has attracted much attention recently. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said on the 2nd that according to statistics from the education department, the total number of Chinese students studying abroad has reached 1.6 million, and about 1.42 million are still abroad. Judging from the situation of the embassies and consulates abroad, most overseas students still choose to stay in the local area.
As of March 31, a total of 36 Chinese overseas students have been diagnosed. All 36 international students received better treatment in time, and 11 have been discharged. Chinese embassies and consulates issue "health packs" for overseas students through various channels, and continuously allocate 500,000 health packs to Chinese students, including more than 11 million masks and 500,000 disinfection items.
Looking overseas, the global epidemic is still not optimistic. According to real-time statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 11:30 on April 2, Beijing time, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide has exceeded 930,000, reaching 937,091 cases; the cumulative deaths have reached 47,231 cases; The cumulative number of cured cases was 193,764. Among them, the total number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 210,000, and at least 100 confirmed cases appeared in the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier docked in Guam.
The European epidemic continues to worsen. As of 18:00 on April 1, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Italy rose to 110,574. Italian Prime Minister Conte announced that the end of the nationwide "cities closure" measure was postponed from April 3 to April 13. Spain accumulatively confirmed 102,136 cases a day, becoming the third country after the United States and Italy with more than 100,000 confirmed cases worldwide.
World Health Organization Director-General Tan Desai said on the 1st that the new crown pneumonia pandemic has led to an exponential increase in newly diagnosed cases worldwide in the past few weeks. The number of confirmed cases worldwide will reach 1 million in the next few days, and the number of deaths will exceed 50,000. . (Finish)