BEIJING (Xinhua): Chinese health authorities on Sunday (Feb 9) said it received reports of 2,656 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 89 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Another 3,916 new suspected cases were reported on Saturday, said the commission. The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 37,198 by the end of Saturday, the commission said, noting that a total of 811 people had died of the disease. By the end of Saturday, 26 confirmed cases including one death had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 10 in the Macao SAR and 17 in Taiwan. One patient in Macao and one in Taiwan have been discharged from hospital after recovery.

Source: The Star February 09, 2020 03:00 UTC