Residents queue to have their swab samples taken for COVID-19 tests at a testing site in the Gulou district of Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, July 22, 2021.(LI BO / XINHUA)

BEIJING - The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 48 new COVID-19 cases, of which 36 were imported and 12 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.

All of the 12 new locally transmitted cases were reported in Jiangsu.

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By the end of Thursday, the mainland had reported a total of 92,462, along with 87,163 recoveries. The toll remained at 4,636

Of the new imported cases, 14 were reported in Guangdong, 13 in Yunnan, three in Shanghai, two each in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and one each in Tianjin and Hubei, according to the commission.

Thursday also saw three new suspected cases reported in Shanghai, all arriving from outside the mainland.

No additonal deaths related to COVID-19 were posted, the commission said.

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By the end of Thursday, the mainland had reported a total of 92,462, along with 87,163 recoveries. The toll remained at 4,636. A total of 7,161 imported cases had been reported with no deaths.

There were four suspected COVID-19 cases on the mainland on Thursday.

On the same day, 35 new asymptomatic cases were also reported, 25 of them arriving from outside the mainland. 

By the end of Thursday, 11,971 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 212 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 56 cases in the Macao SAR, and 15,511 cases, including 782 deaths, in Taiwan.

A total of 11,690 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, 53 in the Macao SAR, and 12,456 in Taiwan.