BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) - A total of 89 patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospitals Monday on the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission.

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. On Sunday, 17 coronavirus-infected patients recovered and were discharged from the hospital. (Photo: Xinhua)

Altogether 77,167 patients had been discharged from hospitals after recovery by the end of Monday, the commission said in its daily report Tuesday.

As of Monday, 81,740 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, and 3,331 people had died of the disease.