Novel coronavirus outbreak: Over 40,000 cases confirmed in China, 908 deaths

A total of 40,171 cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed on the Chinese mainland as of midnight on Sunday, with 908 deaths, according to China's National Health Commission (NHC).

The updated figures include 97 new deaths and 3,062 new cases that were reported on Sunday.

There were also 632 more recovered cases, bringing the total to 3,281.

The number of confirmed cases in China's Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions are as follows:

Hong Kong: 36 (1 death)

Macao: 10 (1 recovered)

Taiwan: 18 (1 recovered)

Central China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, reported 2,618 new cases of infection on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 29,631 in the province.

On Sunday, 91 more deaths were reported in Hubei. 

As of Sunday, a total of 1,795 patients were discharged from hospitals and a total of 871 people have died from the virus in Hubei Province.

A pneumonia outbreak was first reported in the city of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province in December,, 2019. Experts have attributed the outbreak to a novel coronavirus that has since spread across China and abroad.

Editor: John Li