Children play on a square in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province, Feb 1, 2021. (MU YU / XINHUA)

BEIJING - The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 30 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 12 locally transmitted ones, the National Health Commission said Tuesday.

Of the new local cases, eight were reported in the province of Heilongjiang and four in Jilin, the commission said in its daily report.

Among the 18 fresh imported cases, seven were posted in Shanghai, three in Jiangsu, two each in Liaoning and Guangdong, and one each in Beijing, Shanxi, Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Of the new local cases, eight were reported in the province of Heilongjiang and four in Jilin, the National Health Commission said

No suspected cases or deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Monday, the commission said, while another 62 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery.

By the end of Monday, a total of 4,735 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Among them, 4,426 had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 309 remained hospitalized. No deaths had been reported among imported cases.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland reached 89,594 by Monday, including 1,582 patients still receiving treatment, of whom 72 were in severe conditions.

A total of 83,376 patients had been discharged following recovery and 4,636 had died from the disease, according to the commission.

There was one suspected case as of Monday, and 37,319 close contacts remained under medical observation.

Monday also saw 15 newly reported asymptomatic cases, of which eight were imported, while six asymptomatic cases were re-categorized as confirmed cases.

A total of 872 asymptomatic cases were under medical observation, of whom 287 arrived from outside the mainland.  

By the end of Monday, 10,486 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 182 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), while 47 cases had been reported in the Macao SAR, and 912 cases, including eight deaths, had been reported in Taiwan.

A total of 9,474 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, 46 in the Macao SAR, and 830 in Taiwan.