Health Care Commission: 18 new confirmed cases are imported from abroad

From 0:24 p.m. on February 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 10 new confirmed cases, all of which were imported from abroad (7 in Shanghai, 2 in Tianjin and 1 in Hunan);
46 new cases were cured and discharged from hospital on the same day, 406 close contacts were released from medical observation, and 2 cases of severe illness were reduced from the previous day.
207 confirmed cases (including 1 case of severe illness) and 4 suspected cases have been imported from outside China. A total of 4913 confirmed cases, a total of 4706 cases of cured discharge, no deaths.
As of 2400 hours on February 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported that there were 484 confirmed cases (of which 8 were serious cases), a total of 84696 cases were cured and discharged from hospital, 4636 cumulative deaths were reported, 89816 confirmed cases were reported, and 4 suspected cases were reported. A total of 975,316 close contacts were traced and 8308 close contacts were still under medical observation.
31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 8 new cases of asymptomatic infection (all imported from abroad);
received a total of 11808 confirmed cases from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Among them,
10820 cases in the Special Administrative Region (10,298 cases of discharge, 197 cases of death), 48 cases of the Macao Special Administrative Region (46 cases of discharge), 940 cases of
regions (886 cases of discharge, 9 cases of death).