The current case fatality rate (CFR) of the novel coronavirus infection on the Chinese mainland has dropped to 2.1 percent, Chinese health authorities said Tuesday.
國家衛健委表示,全國新型冠狀病毒感染的肺炎患者病死率已降至2.1%。
Li Haiyang (L), director of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, presents a greeting card to a cured patient (C) in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 29, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
The CFR remained stable after an initial 2.3 percent recorded at the beginning of the outbreak, said Jiao Yahui with the National Health Commission at a daily press briefing on the epidemic.
The CFR in Hubei province was 3.1 percent, as the majority of the deaths occurred in the province, which saw a death toll of 414, over 97 percent of the total.
死亡患者主要集中在湖北省,累計414人,占全國97%,湖北省確診病例的病死率為3.1%。
In Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei, the CFR stood at 4.9 percent and the death toll was 313, accounting for 74 percent of the national total.
武漢市的死亡人數是313人,占全國死亡的74%,武漢確診病例病死率是4.9%。
Peng Zhiyong (C), head of the department of critical care medicine of Zhongnan Hospital, performs diagnosis on a patient with his colleagues in Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Jan 24, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
The fatality rate outside Hubei was only 0.16 percent.
如果除掉湖北省,其他省份的病死率是0.16%。
More than 80 percent of the deaths were elderly people over 60 years old, and over 75 percent had at least one underlying disease such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and tumors.