A man wearing a face mask uses an alcohol wipe to disinfect a bike-sharing bicycle in Beijing, capital of China, Oct 26, 2020. (ANDY WONG / AP)

BEIJING - No new locally transmitted confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported Monday across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Tuesday.

A total of 50 new asymptomatic cases, including 24 arriving from outside the mainland, were reported, the commission said in its daily report.

It added that 16 new imported cases were reported on the same day, of which three each were posted in Shanghai and Shaanxi, two each in Hebei and Sichuan, and one each in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Shandong and Guangdong.

The National Health Commission said there were 50 new asymptomatic cases, including 24 arriving from outside the mainland

No new suspected cases or additional deaths related to the disease were reported, the commission said.

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Another 17 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, it said, adding that there were 264 patients still being treated, including four in severe condition.

By the end of Monday, a total of 3,264 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Of them, 3,009 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery while 255 remained hospitalized. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

So far, a total of 85,826 confirmed cases had been reported on the mainland, including 80,928 recoveries and 4,634 deaths, the commission said.

There were two suspected cases on the mainland, while 9,485 close contacts were still under medical observation after 243 were released from observation, according to the commission.

Also on Monday, two asymptomatic cases from outside the mainland were re-categorized as confirmed cases, while 570 asymptomatic cases, including 405 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation, the commission said.

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By Monday, 5,303 confirmed cases, including 105 deaths, had been reported in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), while 46 cases had been reported in Macao SAR, and 550 cases, including seven deaths, in Taiwan.

A total of 5,050 COVID-19 patients in Hong Kong SAR, 46 in Macao SAR and 502 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.