China has 21 new Covid-19 cases

Medical staff cheer themselves up before going into an ICU ward for Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 16, 2020. - AFP

BEIJING (Reuters): Mainland China had 21 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Monday (March 16), the National Health Commission said on Tuesday (March 17), up from 16 a day earlier.

That brings the total number of confirmed cases in China so far to 80,881.