National Health Commission: 5,974 confirmed cases in the Chinese mainland, 132 dead

China's National Health Commission said a total of 5,974 cases of novel coronavirus were confirmed in the Chinese mainland as of 24:00 on Tuesday, with 132 dead and 103 cured.

Among the confirmed cases, 1,239 patients were in critical condition.

There are 9,239 suspected cases in the Chinese mainland. China's Tibet Autonomous Region, which had been the only place unaffected in the virus outbreak, reported one suspected case on Tuesday.

The number of confirmed cases in China's Taiwan and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions (SARs) are as follows:

Taiwan: 8

Hong Kong SAR: 8

Macao SAR: 7

What's the situation now compared to SARS?

The number of the confirmed cases caused by novel coronavirus now in the Chinese mainland has surpassed that of SARS in 2003: 5,974 versus 5,327.

The official Chinese mainland death toll of SARS was 349, while that of coronavirus now stands at 132.