People wearing face masks walk on a street in Dongchang district of Tonghua, northeast China's Jilin province, Feb 21, 2021. (XU CHANG / XINHUA)

BEIJING/HARBIN - The Chinese mainland reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said Monday, .

As of Sunday, no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases had been reported for a week, according to the commission.

The commission received reports of 11 new imported COVID-19 cases on Sunday. Three of the fresh cases were posted in Guangdong, two each in Shanghai and Sichuan, and one each in Beijing, Tianjin, Fujian and Hunan, the commission said.

One new suspected case from outside the mainland was reported in Shanghai, it said, while no additional deaths related to the disease were reported.

The Chinese mainland has not reported any new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for a week, according to the National Health Commission

Another 33 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals following their recovery, the commission said, adding that there were 401 patients still receiving treatment, including two in severe conditions.

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By the end of Sunday, a total of 4,939 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Among them, 4,754 had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 185 remained hospitalized. No deaths had been reported among the imported cases.

So far, the mainland had reported a total of 89,842 confirmed cases by Sunday, of which 84,805 had recovered and 4,636 had died.

There were three suspected COVID-19 cases on the mainland by the end of Sunday, and 7,832 close contacts remained under medical observation.

Sunday also saw eight newly reported asymptomatic cases, all arriving from outside the mainland, while two asymptomatic cases arriving from outside the mainland were re-categorized as confirmed ones.

A total of 309 asymptomatic cases were under medical observation, of whom 271 arrived from outside the mainland.  

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By the end of Sunday, 10,868 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 197 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 48 cases in the Macao SAR, and 942 cases, including nine deaths, in Taiwan.

A total of 10,389 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, 47 in the Macao SAR, and 893 in Taiwan.

Free of COVID-19 risk areas

As of Monday, the COVID-19 threat level in the last existing medium-risk areas on the mainland had been downgraded to low, marking the mainland's elimination of all medium- and high-risk areas for COVID-19.

Northeast China's Heilongjiang province no longer has medium- or high-risk COVID-19 areas after Wangkui county, where cluster infections were reported in early January, downgraded its risk level on Monday.

The anti-epidemic headquarters of Suihua city, which administers Wangkui, made the decision on Monday to downgrade Wangkui to a low-risk area as no new confirmed or asymptomatic cases were reported over the past two weeks.

Prior to the Heilongjiang decision, Shijiazhuang, capital city of north China's Hebei province, announced that Gaocheng district in the Shijiazhuang would be downgraded to a low-risk area on Monday, after no new confirmed cases were detected in the local communities during screening over the past two weeks.