A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a COVID-19 testing site in East China's Shanghai, April 12, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 181 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 84 were in Shanghai and 58 in Beijing, according to the National Health Commission Saturday.
Shanghai also reported 784 locally transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus Friday, out of a total of 951 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland
Apart from Shanghai and Beijing, three other provincial-level regions on the mainland also saw new local COVID-19 cases, including 32 in Sichuan, 6 in Tianjin and one in Henan.
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Shanghai also reported 784 locally transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus Friday, out of a total of 951 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland.
Following the recovery of 391 COVID-19 patients who were discharged from hospitals on Friday, there were 4,715 confirmed COVID-19 cases receiving treatment in hospitals across the Chinese mainland.
One new death from COVID-19 was reported in Shanghai, according to the commission.
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