Photo: A cured COVID-19 patient thumbs up to appreciate the attentive treatment of medical workers at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 21, 2020. /Xinhua

BEIJING, April 26 (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.