A police officer distributes travel advisory pamphlets to travelers at Chongqing West railway station, in Chongqing, Sichuan province, April 28, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING/WUHAN/HARBIN - Chinese health authorities said Wednesday that it received reports of 22 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, of which 21 were imported.

The other new case was domestically transmitted in Guangdong province, the National Health Commission said in a daily report.

Two suspected cases imported from abroad - one in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and the other in Shanghai - were reported.

By Tuesday, the mainland had reported a total of 1,660 imported cases, of which 1,107 of them have been discharged from hospitals after recovery

No deaths were reported Tuesday on the mainland, according to the commission.

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A total of 23 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery Tuesday, while the number of severe cases remained unchanged at 50.

As of Tuesday, the overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 82,858, including 647 patients who were still being treated and 77,578 people who had been discharged after recovery, the commission said.

Altogether 4,633 people had died of the disease, it said.

By Tuesday, the mainland had reported a total of 1,660 imported cases. Among those cases, 1,107 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 553 were being treated with 22 in severe conditions. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

The commission said that 10 people, including seven from abroad, were still suspected of being infected with the virus.

According to the commission, 8,283 close contacts were still under medical observation after 627 people were released from medical observation on Tuesday.

Also on Tuesday, 26 new asymptomatic cases, including five from abroad, were reported on the mainland. One domestic asymptomatic case was re-categorized as confirmed case, and 29 people, four of whom were from abroad, were released from medical observation, according to the commission.

The commission said 993 asymptomatic cases, including 131 from abroad, were still under medical observation.

By Tuesday, 1,037 confirmed cases including four deaths had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 45 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 429 in Taiwan including six deaths.

Both the provinces of Hubei and Heilongjiang reported zero confirmed cases on Tuesday, local health authorities said

A total of 811 patients in Hong Kong, 33 in Macao and 307 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.

Hubei

Zero confirmed cases and deaths were reported in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, the provincial health commission said Wednesday.

By the end of Tuesday, there were no new confirmed cases in the province.

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By Tuesday, the province had 600 asymptomatic cases under medical observation.

A total of 282,324 close contacts of COVID-19 patients in the province had been tracked by Tuesday, 1,675 of whom were still under medical observation.

Hubei has so far reported 68,128 confirmed COVID-19 cases in total, including 50,333 in Wuhan.

Wuhan, the provincial capital where the outbreak took the heaviest toll in China, cleared all confirmed cases in hospitals on Sunday. 

Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang province reported zero new locally-transmitted and imported confirmed cases Tuesday, the provincial health commission said Wednesday.

The province saw three new asymptomatic cases on Tuesday.

By Tuesday, the province had reported a total of 553 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 386 imported cases.

The province had a total of 10 imported asymptomatic cases by Tuesday.