Health workers collect swab samples at a COVID-19 nucleic testing site in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, July 31, 2021. (CHEN ZEGUO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 2,204 locally transmitted, confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Sunday.
Altogether 22,011 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified.
A total of 1,146 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the mainland on Saturday, said the commission in its daily report.
The total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery had reached 260,141 on the mainland.
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Saturday saw one new death from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,227.