People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus wait to cross an intersection in Beijing, capital of China, Jan 20, 2021. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN / AP)

BEIJING - Beijing's Daxing district issued a notification Wednesday banning all people in the district from leaving the capital in the wake of new COVID-19 cases.

Those who need to travel outside the city should obtain approval from local authorities and have a negative COVID-19 nucleic acid test result taken within three days, according to the leading group on epidemic prevention and control work in Daxing.

Beijing's Daxing district will enforce stringent lockdown management in five residential compounds in the Tiangongyuan sub-district, where new cases had been detected

The district will enforce stringent lockdown management in five residential compounds in the Tiangongyuan sub-district, where the new cases were detected.

All public places in the sub-district are required to suspend operation. Visitor flows in public places outside the sub-district, including stores, commercial buildings, hotels, cinemas and gyms, should be limited to 50 percent of their maximum capacity.

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Training institutes in the district have also been asked to close while special institutions, such as nursing homes and welfare homes, shall be managed with closed-off measures to contain the COVID-19 resurgence.

In addition, public transportation in the district is required to cap passenger flows at 75 percent of the full capacity.

Beijing reported seven new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, of which six were reported in the Ronghui residential compound in Tiangongyuan.

A staff member works on nucleic acid samples at a nucleic acid test laboratory named Huoyan, or Fire Eye, in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province, Jan 18, 2021. (JIN HAOYUAN / XINHUA)

103 new cases on mainland

Nationwide, the Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 103 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 88 locally transmitted cases and 15 arriving from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.

Of the new local cases reported on the mainland, 46 were reported in Jilin, 19 in Hebei, 16 in Heilongjiang, and seven in Beijing, the National Health Commission said

Of the locally transmitted cases, 46 were reported in Jilin, 19 in Hebei, 16 in Heilongjiang, and seven in Beijing, the commission said in its daily report.

No suspected cases or deaths related to the disease were reported on Tuesday, said the commission.

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By the end of Tuesday, the mainland had reported 4,545 imported cases. Among them, 4,269 had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 276 remained hospitalized. No deaths had been reported among the imported cases.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland reached 88,557 by Tuesday, including 1,473 patients still receiving treatment, 62 of whom were in severe condition.

A total of 82,449 patients had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 4,635 had died of the disease, according to the commission.

There were no suspected cases on the mainland on Tuesday, and 34,966 close contacts remained under medical observation.

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Tuesday also saw 58 newly reported asymptomatic cases, of which 15 were imported, while 39 asymptomatic cases were re-categorized as confirmed cases.

A total of 819 asymptomatic cases were under medical observation, of whom 266 arrived from outside the mainland.  

By the end of Tuesday, 9,720 confirmed cases, including 165 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 46 cases in the Macao SAR, and 868 cases, including seven deaths, in Taiwan.

A total of 8,828 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, 46 in the Macao SAR, and 766 in Taiwan.