Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China

This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China.

The case count in mainland China only includes symptomatic cases. It excludes patients who test positive but do not have symptoms, of which there were 889 as of 11 February 2020.^[1] Asymptomatic infections are reported separately.^[2] It is also reported that there were more than 43,000 by the end of February 2020.^[3]^[4]^[5] On 17 April, following the Wuhan government's issuance of a report on accounting for COVID-19 deaths that occurred at home that went previously unreported, as well as the subtraction of deaths that were previously double-counted by different hospitals, the NHC retrospectively revised their cumulative totals dating to 16 April, adding 325 cumulative cases and 1,290 deaths.^[6]

Around March 2020, there was speculation that China's COVID numbers were deliberately inaccurate, but as of 2021, China's COVID elimination strategy was considered^{[by whom?]} to have been successful and its statistics were considered^{[by whom?]} to be accurate.^{[dubious – discuss]}^[7]^[8]^[9]

By December 2022, the Chinese central government had changed its definition of reported death statistics to only include cases in which COVID-19 directly caused respiratory failure,^[10] which led to skepticism by health experts of the government's total death count.^[11]^[12] The same month, the municipal health chief of Qingdao reported "between 490,000 and 530,000" new COVID-19 cases per day.^[13]

China was part of a small group of countries such as Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore that pursued a zero-COVID strategy.^{[citation needed]} The Chinese government's strategy involved extensive testing, mask wearing, temperature checks, ventilation, contact tracing, quarantines, isolation of infected people, and heavy restrictions in response to local outbreaks.

On December 25, 2022, the Chinese government's National Health Commission announced that it would no longer publish daily COVID-19 data.^[14] In January 2023, the World Health Organization stated, "We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths."^[15]

COVID-19 cases in Mainland China (
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Deaths Recoveries Tested Clinically diagnosed (C.D.) Tested or C.D.
20192019202020202021202120222022
DecDec
JanJanFebFebMarMarAprAprMayMayJunJunJulJulAugAugSepSepOctOctNovNovDecDec
JanJanFebFebMarMarAprAprMayMayJunJunJulJulAugAugSepSepOctOctNovNovDecDec
JanJan
Last 15 daysLast 15 days
Date	Number of cases (excluding C.D.)	Number of cases (including C.D.)
2019-12-31		27(n.a.)
⋮		27(=)
2020-01-03		44(+63%)
2020-01-04		44(=)
2020-01-05		59(+34%)
⋮		59(=)
2020-01-10	41(n.a.)
2020-01-11	41(=)
2020-01-12	41(=)
⋮	41(=)
2020-01-15	41(=)
2020-01-16	45(+9.8%)
2020-01-17	62(+38%)
2020-01-18	121(+95%)
2020-01-19	198(+64%)
2020-01-20	291(+47%)
2020-01-21	440(+51%)
2020-01-22	571(+30%)
2020-01-23	830(+45%)
2020-01-24	1,287(+55%)
2020-01-25	1,975(+53%)
2020-01-26	2,744(+39%)
2020-01-27	4,515(+65%)
2020-01-28	5,974(+32%)
2020-01-29	7,711(+29%)
2020-01-30	9,692(+26%)
2020-01-31	11,791(+22%)
2020-02-01	14,380(+22%)
2020-02-02	17,205(+20%)
2020-02-03	20,438(+19%)
2020-02-04	24,324(+19%)
2020-02-05	28,018(+15%)
2020-02-06	31,161(+11%)
2020-02-07	34,546(+11%)
2020-02-08	37,198(+7.7%)
2020-02-09	40,171(+8%)
2020-02-10^[i]	42,638(+6.1%)	48,315(n.a.)
2020-02-11	44,653(+4.7%)	55,220(+14%)
2020-02-12^[ii]	46,472(+4.1%)	58,761(+6.4%)
2020-02-13	48,467(+4.3%)	63,851(+8.7%)

This box: view talk edit COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China by provinces Data released by Chinese provinces as of 24:00 (UTC+8) 5 July 2021^[20]^[21]
Chinese provinces	Pop. (mil.) (2019)	Cases	Deaths	Fatality	Recov.	Active	Cases /1M pop	Deaths /1M pop	Ref.
China (mainland)	1,400.0500	86,338	4,634	5.37	81,319	385	61.67	3.31	^[22]^[21]
Hubei	59.2700	68,148	4,512	6.62	63,627	9	1,149.8	76.13	^[23]^[21]
——Wuhan, Hubei	11.2120	50,340	3,869	7.69	46,471	0	4,489.8	345.08	^[23]
Guangdong	115.2100	1,963	8	0.41	1,922	33	17.0	0.07	^[24] ^[21]
Zhejiang	58.5000	1,291	1	0.08	1,279	11	22.1	0.02	^[25] ^[21]
Henan	96.4000	1,288	22	1.71	1,259	7	13.4	0.23	^[21]
Shanghai	24.2814	1,277	7	0.55	1,174	96	52.6	0.29	^[21]
Hunan	69.1838	1,020	4	0.39	1,015	1	14.7	0.06	^[21]
Anhui	63.6590	992	6	0.60	985	1	15.6	0.09	^[21]
Xinjiang	25.2322	980	3	0.31	952	25	38.8	0.12	^[21]
Heilongjiang	37.5130	949	13	1.37	936	0	25.3	0.35	^[21]
Jiangxi	46.6610	935	1	0.11	934	0	20.0	0.02	^[21]
Beijing	21.5360	947	9	0.95	932	6	44.0	0.42	^[26] ^[21]
Shandong	100.7021	848	7	0.83	841	0	8.4	0.07	^[21]
Sichuan	83.7500	783	3	0.38	735	45	9.3	0.04	^[21]
Jiangsu	80.7000	676	0	0	666	10	8.4	0	^[21]
Chongqing	31.2432	589	6	1.02	582	1	18.9	0.19	^[21]
Shaanxi	38.7621	484	3	0.62	438	43	12.5	0.08	^[21]
Fujian	39.7300	461	1	0.22	423	37	11.6	0.03	^[21]
Hebei	75.9197	373	6	1.61	362	5	4.9	0.08	^[21]
Inner Mongolia	25.3960	307	1	0.33	282	24	12.1	0.04	^[21]
Tianjin	15.6183	289	3	1.04	266	20	18.5	0.19	^[21]
Liaoning	43.5170	288	2	0.69	280	6	6.6	0.05	^[21]
Guangxi	49.6000	260	2	0.77	258	0	5.2	0.04	^[21]
Shanxi	37.2922	218	0	0	213	5	5.8	0	^[21]
Yunnan	48.5830	217	2	0.92	209	6	4.5	0.04	^[21]
Hainan	9.4472	171	6	3.51	165	0	18.1	0.64	^[21]
Gansu	26.4743	181	2	1.10	177	2	6.8	0.08	^[21]
Jilin	26.9073	157	2	1.27	155	0	5.8	0.07	^[21]
Guizhou	36.2295	147	2	1.36	145	0	4.1	0.06	^[21]
Ningxia	6.9466	75	0	0	75	0	10.8	0	^[21]
Qinghai	6.0782	18	0	0	18	0	2.96	0	^[21]
Tibet	3.5056	1	0	0	1	0	0.29	0	^[21]

Timeline

Charts

2020 cumulative and daily cases graph

New cases per day

Deaths per day

Recoveries per day

By province

By city

Economic Performance

Notes

References