A health worker takes a swab sample from a boy for a COVID-19 test in the Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin municipality, Nov 22, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING - China's National Health Commission said Tuesday that it received reports of 22 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Monday, including two domestically transmitted cases and 20 imported ones.

The local infections were reported in Tianjin and Shanghai, while the fresh imported cases were posted in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Henan

The local infections were reported in Tianjin and Shanghai, the commission said in its daily report, while the fresh imported cases were posted in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Henan.

Shanghai also reported one suspected imported case.

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No additional deaths related to the disease were reported, the commission said.

Fifteen more patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, the commission said, adding that there were 322 patients still under treatment, including six in severe condition.

By the end of Monday, a total of 3,804 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Among them, 3,501 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery while 303 remained hospitalized. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

Overall, the mainland had reported a total of 86,464 confirmed cases, including 81,508 recoveries and 4,634 deaths, the commission said.

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There was one suspected case on the mainland, while 11,857 close contacts were still under medical observation after 189 were released from observation, according to the commission. 

Also on Monday, eight new asymptomatic cases, all arriving from outside the mainland, were reported and six asymptomatic cases were re-categorized as confirmed cases.

A total of 348 asymptomatic cases were still under medical observation, with 345 arriving from outside the mainland.

By the end of Monday, 5,701 confirmed cases and 108 deaths have been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), while the Macao SAR has recorded 46 cases, and Taiwan has logged 618 cases, including seven deaths.

A total of 5,267 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 46 in the Macao SAR and 549 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.