Medical workers and a cured COVID-19 patient pose for a group photo at an infectious disease hospital in Jinzhong, north China's Shanxi Province, March 13, 2020. The last person diagnosed with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was cured and discharged from a Jinzhong hospital on Friday, bringing the recovery rate of the total 133 confirmed cases in the province to 100 percent. (Xinhua/Chai Ting)
Altogether 67,749 patients had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Sunday.
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 838 patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospital Sunday on the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission.
Altogether 67,749 patients had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Sunday, the commission said in its daily report.
As of Sunday, a total of 80,860 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 had been reported on the mainland, and 3,213 people had died of the disease. ■
