Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, April 17th: Wuhan City's New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters released the "Notice on the Correction of the Number of Confirmed Cases of New Coronary Pneumonia in Wuhan" on the 17th. The full text is as follows:

  According to Article 38, Paragraph 4 of the Law of the People ’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, “Publicity information should be timely and accurate”, and Article 25, Paragraph 3, “Public Health Emergency Response Regulations” It should be timely, accurate and comprehensive ", Article 19 of the" Regulations on the Implementation of the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China "" In case of incomplete statistical data or obvious errors, the statistical investigation object shall be supplemented or corrected according to law "," Registration of Population Death Information Management "Regulation (Trial)" Article 14 "Medical and health institutions should establish a data revision system", Article 15 "Medical and health institutions should establish a data comparison and verification system" and other regulations, in line with the responsibility for history and the people The principle of being responsible and responsible to the deceased, in order to ensure that the information of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic situation in the city is open and transparent, and the data is accurate, the Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters specially established an epidemic-related big data and epidemiological investigation team to organize the city health and disease Control, public security, civil affairs, justice, statistics and other departments, online information system for big data prevention and control of epidemic situation in Wuhan, Funeral and burial information system, municipal medical administration medical management new crown pneumonia information system, city new crown pneumonia virus nucleic acid detection system for online comparison, deduplication, and completion, offline according to full coverage, no omission requirements, for all epidemic-related Complete collection of location data, including hot spots, hospitals, shelters, isolation points, epidemic-affected communities, and special places such as prisons, pension institutions and other jurisdictions under the jurisdiction of public security, judicial, civil affairs and other departments, all personal information of all cases is collected and passed Medical institutions, street communities, grass-roots police stations, patients ’units and their families checked and checked one by one. As of 24:00 on April 16, the number of confirmed cases increased by 325, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases was revised to 50333; the death cases of confirmed cases were checked. An increase of 1290 cases, the cumulative number of diagnosed cases of death was revised to 3869 cases.

  The reasons for the difference in the above data: First, the surge of patients in the early stage of the epidemic caused a shortage of medical resources and serious inadequate treatment capacity. Some patients did not enter the hospital and died at home. The second is that during the peak period of treatment, the hospital is overloaded and medical staff are busy with treatment. Objectively, there are late reports, missed reports and false positives. Third, due to the rapid increase of designated medical institutions for patients, there are ministries, provincial, municipal and district hospitals, as well as enterprises, private hospitals and square cabin hospitals. A few medical institutions have failed to connect with the epidemic network in time.送 信息。 Send information. Fourth, the registration of some death cases is incomplete, and there are re-reporting and misreporting.

  Life comes first, people come first. Every life lost in the epidemic is a family sorrow, and it is also the pain of the city's heart. Here, we would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family members of the deceased during the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, and to express our deep condolences to the tragic compatriots and the sacrificed medical personnel!

Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters

April 17, 2020