2 local virus cases in Guangdong among 25 fresh on mainland

A man receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, June 18, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Monday reported two new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in Guangdong province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.

There were also 23 newly reported imported cases, seven of which were reported in Fujian, five each in Guangdong and Sichuan, four in Zhejiang, and one each in Inner Mongolia and Shanghai.

By Monday, the mainland had reported a total of 91,629 confirmed cases, 86,481 recoveries and 4,636 deaths

No new suspected cases and deaths related to COVID-19 were reported, the commission said.

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There were 512 patients still receiving treatment, 17 of whom were in severe condition, it said.

By Monday, the mainland had reported a total of 91,629 confirmed cases, 86,481 recoveries and 4,636 deaths. A total of 6,437 imported cases had been reported with no fatalities.

There was one suspected COVID-19 case on the mainland on Monday.

Also on Monday, 27 new asymptomatic cases were new reported, all from outside the mainland. 

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By the end of Monday, 11,889 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 210 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 53 cases in the Macao SAR, and 14,080 cases, including 569 deaths, in Taiwan.

A total of 11,616 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, 51 in the Macao SAR, and 7,534 in Taiwan.

Nearly 1.05 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered across the mainland as of Monday, the commission said.