Medical workers from Hainan province take swab samples from residents for nucleic acid tests at a community in Jiading District of Shanghai, east China, April 6, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING -The Chinese mainland reported 1,540 new locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the National Health Commission said Friday.
Thursday also saw 22,648 new asymptomatic carriers on the Chinese mainland, including 22,561 local ones and 87 imported ones, said the National Health Commission
Of the local confirmed cases reported Thursday, 824 were in Shanghai, 617 in Jilin, 20 in Fujian, and 13 in Jiangsu. The rest were reported in 16 provincial-level regions.
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Besides, a total of 36 new imported COVID-19 cases were reported across the mainland.
Thursday also saw 22,648 new asymptomatic carriers on the Chinese mainland, including 22,561 local ones and 87 imported ones, said the commission.
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Among the asymptomatic carriers, 20,398 were reported in Shanghai and 1,649 in Jilin.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,867 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals, and 31,955 close contacts were discharged from medical observation on Thursday.
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Altogether 133,222 patients had been discharged from hospitals across the mainland after recovery by the end of Thursday, according to the report.