A medical worker collects a swab sample from a man at a COVID-19 testing site in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on oct 26, 2020. (YUETIKEER NIJIATI / FOR CHINA DAILY)

BEIJING - Chinese health authorities said Thursday that it received reports of 47 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including 23 that were domestically transmitted and 24 imported.

All the domestic cases were asymptomatic cases in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region that were re-categorized as confirmed cases, according to the National Health Commission (NHC) and Xinjiang's health commission.

The 23 cases were asymptomatic cases in Shufu county of Kashgar prefecture that were re-categorized as confirmed cases, according to the National Health Commission and Xinjiang's health commission

The 23 cases were reported in Shufu county of south Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture, the Xinjiang health commission said. It added that no new asymptomatic cases were reported on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, eight of the new imported cases were posted in Inner Mongolia, six in Shanghai, three in Guangdong, two each in Tianjin and Jiangsu, and one each in Beijing, Fujian and Shaanxi, the NHC said.

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

It added that seven more patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, while 338 patients were still being treated, including seven in severe condition.

By the end of Wednesday, a total of 3,308 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Of them, 3,022 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery while 286 remained hospitalized. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

As of Wednesday, the mainland had reported a total of 85,915 confirmed cases, including 80,943 recoveries and 4,634 deaths, the NHC said.

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There was no suspected COVID-19 case on the mainland, while 11,296 close contacts were still under medical observation after 546 were released from observation, according to the NHC.

Sixteen new asymptomatic cases, all arriving from outside the mainland, were reported, while one asymptomatic case from outside the mainland was re-categorized as confirmed cases.

The commission said 543 asymptomatic cases, including 404 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation.

Taiwan on Thursday marked 200 days since its last locally transmitted case on April 12, Bloomberg reports. Overall, the island of 23 million people has had 550 confirmed cases, with only seven deaths.

In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), a total of 5,310 confirmed cases and 105 deaths have been reported by Wednesday, whereas in the Macao SAR, 46 cases have been recorded so far.

A total of 5,063 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 46 in the Macao SAR and 508 in Taiwan have been discharged from hospitals after recovery. 

With Bloomberg input