There have been 21 new cases of Covid-19 reported in China, including 13 cases without symptoms. With these new cases, the number of infected cases in the country has increased to 82,941. Health officials gave this information on Saturday. A massive public investigation has begun in Wuhan City, from where the outbreak began. China's National Health Commission (NHC) said six out of eight new confirmed cases of Covid-19 that came out on Friday were people who came from outside.
The commission said that the other two cases are about coming in contact with an infected person locally. Both of these cases are from Jilin province, where the lockdown was imposed recently after a large number of infection cases occurred. However, the number of cases without symptoms continued to increase, with 13 more such cases reported on Friday. The NHC said that 30 of the 561 non-symptomatic cases have come from abroad, which are still under medical supervision. In cases with no symptoms, the person is infected with the corona virus, but does not have any symptoms such as fever, cough or sore throat. However, they carry the risk of spreading the disease to others.
Central Hubei Province and its capital Wuhan have reported 439 unidentified cases of Covid-19 as of Friday. Chinese authorities have started an investigation into the sub-city of 1.1 million people since Wednesday. As of Friday, the virus death toll in Hubei province was 4,512, of which only 3,869 deaths occurred in Wuhan. A total of 68,134 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed so far in Hubei, including 50,339 cases reported in Wuhan. NHC said that by Friday, confirmed cases of Covid-19 had reached 82,941 across China, with 89 patients still undergoing treatment, and 78,219 people been cured and a total of 4,633 people have died of the disease.
