Shanghai adds 14 new coronavirus cases to tally

Shanghai announced on Wednesday that 14 new cases of infection caused by the novel coronavirus were confirmed on the previous day, bringing the total confirmed cases in the municipality to 80 by midnight Tuesday.

Seven of the newly confirmed patients were from Central China's Hubei province, the epicenter, and the rest are residents of the municipality, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission said.

The confirmed patients in Shanghai range in age from 7 to 88 and 43 of them are men. Sixty-one of the cases recently lived in or traveled to Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. One traveled to Guangdong province recently and admitted to having used wild animals for food. Altogether 18 have a clear contact history with those previously confirmed patients.

Half of the total confirmed cases are residents of Shanghai and the other half were from outside the municipality, the commission said.

Altogether 73 of the patients are in stable health condition, two are in critical condition, four have been cured of the disease and discharged from hospital, and one died.

The commission said that 99 suspected cases have been excluded in Shanghai and 167 such cases are still under medical quarantine and observation.