87 COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals on Chinese mainland

Staff member Liu Junhua disinfects the waiting hall of Suifenhe Railway Station in Suifenhe City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Eighty-seven patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospitals after recovery Monday on the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission Tuesday.

Altogether 77,853 patients had been discharged from hospitals after recovery by the end of Monday, the commission said in its daily report.

As of Monday, 82,881 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, and 4,633 people had died of the disease.