Hundreds of Chinese prisoners have been infected with the novel coronavirus as the outbreak spreads to detention centers across China.
He Ping, an official at China's Ministry of Justice, told reporters at a daily briefing Friday that officialsafter more than 500 cases of the newly discovered virus were diagnosed in five prisons across three Chinese provinces, including Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak. No deaths have been reported, he said.
The first cases of the new coronavirus, known officially as COVID-19, emerged back in December in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Chinese authorities have since placed the city under lockdown, but containment of the illness remains a struggle.As of Friday, China's National Health Commission said it had received 75,465 reports of confirmed cases and 2,236 deaths on the Chinese mainland.
Medical workers in protective suits inspect a CT scan image at a hospital in Yunmeng county of Xiaogan city in Hubei, the province hit hardest by the novel coronavirus outbreak, China, Feb. 20, 2020. Medical workers in protective suits inspect a CT scan image at a hospital in Yunmeng county of Xiaogan city in Hubei, the province hit hardest by the novel coronavirus outbreak, China, Feb. 20, 2020.China saw a significant spike in cases last week as the Health Commission of Hubei Province began counting cases without waiting for laboratory tests. But on Thursday, it went back to recording only lab-confirmed positive cases and subtracted some cases where the lab results returned negative.
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