40,171 coronavirus cases confirmed on Chinese mainland

The Chinese mainland had confirmed a total of 40,171 infection cases of the novel coronavirus pneumonia by Sunday midnight, including 3,062 new confirmations reported on the day, the National Health Commission said on Monday morning.

The death toll caused by the highly contagious disease had reached 908 across the mainland, with 97 new deaths reported on Sunday. On the same day 632 people were confirmed to have recovered.

Currently, there are 35,982 patients still under hospitalization on the mainland, including 6,484 with serious symptoms. A total of 3,281 infected people had recovered and been discharged from the hospital by the end of Sunday.

In addition to the confirmed cases, another 23,589 people on the mainland are suspected to be infected with the coronavirus, waiting for further examinations and confirmation.

So far, health authorities across the mainland have traced 399,487 people who have met face-to-face with infected people. A total of 187,518 of them are under medical observation, according to the commission.

There had been 36 confirmed infections in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 10 in the Macao SAR and 18 in Taiwan, the commission said.

In Central China’s Hubei province, the most affected region in the outbreak, 29,631 cases of infection had been confirmed as of Sunday, said the provincial health commission.

The number of confirmed infections increased by 2,618 in the province on Sunday.