48 COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals on Chinese mainland

Photo taken with a mobile phone shows cured patients waving goodbye to medical workers before leaving the Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Gao Xiang/Xinhua)

Forty-eight patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospitals Saturday on the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission.

Altogether 77,394 patients had been discharged from hospitals after recovery by the end of Saturday, the commission said in its daily report Sunday.

As of Saturday, 82,827 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, and 4,632 people had died of the disease.