Hubei prisons see 272 total COVID-19 cases, with new cases down

Central China's Hubei, the center of the COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus, has reported a total of 272 cases from prisons across the province, according to the province's health commission.

While new infections over the course of Friday in the province reached 366, only one of them was registered from a prison and 314 of them were from Wuhan, ground zero of the outbreak, the commission said.

Prisons are listed as a single unit just like all cities in Hubei in the commission's daily data update on Saturday.

Three infected patients from prisons are among the 1,767 patients that were discharged from hospitals after they were cured on Friday. To date, the number of people released from hospitals across the province has reached 13,557.

No deaths happened with cases reported from prisons, it also said.

Zhejiang reported only two additional cases on Friday, bringing the total in the province to 1,205. Both of the two new infections were reported from the Shilifeng Prison in Quzhou, increasing the total infections in the prison to 36, according to the Zhejiang health commission.

Shandong reported 200 infected inmates from Rencheng Prison in Jining city on Thursday. The province, however, only registered one more infection on Friday, according to the province's health commission.

The one new case was reported from the provincial capital of Jinan, but the number of infected inmates in the Rencheng Prison stayed unchanged in the latest daily update.