The totals announced by China's National Health Commission as of end February 8.
How its progressed (these numbers for mainland China):
- Jan 17: 41
- Jan 19: 62
- Jan 20: 201
- Jan 21: 291
- Jan 22: 440
- Jan 24: 830
- Jan 25: 1,287
- Jan 26: 1,975
- Jan 27: 2,744
- Jan 28: 5,974
- Jan 29: 7,711
- Jan 30: 9,692
- Jan 31: 11,791
- Feb 1: 14,380 (number of dead across the country 304)
- Feb 2: 17,205 (number of deaths 361)
- Feb 3: 20,438 (death toll 425)
- Feb 4: 24,324 total cases, 490 deaths
- Feb 5: 28,018 (death toll up by 73, now 563)
- Feb 6: 31,161 (up 3,143), death toll is 636 (up 73)
- Feb 7: 34,564. Deaths 722.
- Feb 8 37,198. Deaths 811.
The official death toll of the previously worst epidemic in China, SARS (2002/2003), was 774.
Comments from professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Joseph Eisenberg,
- too early to say whether the epidemic was peaking due to the uncertainty in the number of cases.
- "Even if reported cases might be peaking, we don't know what is happening with unreported cases. This is especially an issue in some of the more rural areas."
