A woman and a child arrive at Beijing railway station on August 4, 2021. (WANG ZHAO / AFP)

BEIJING/NANJING - The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 62 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday.

Of the locally transmitted cases, 40 were reported in Jiangsu, nine in Hunan, three each in Beijing, Shandong, Henan and Yunnan, and one in Hubei, according to the commission.

Nanjing, a mega-city in Jiangsu province with a population of more than 9.3 million, has reported a total of 227 locally transmitted confirmed cases since new cluster infections began to emerge on July 20

For the new cases in Jiangsu, four were registered in the provincial capital Nanjing while the rest were posted in the city of Yangzhou.

All of the newly identified patients have been sent to designated hospitals for treatment.

Nanjing, a mega-city with a population of more than 9.3 million, has reported a total of 227 locally transmitted confirmed cases since new cluster infections began to emerge on July 20, when a few airport cleaners at the Nanjing Lukou International Airport tested positive during routine testing.

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Currently, there are 414 patients hospitalized in Jiangsu, 396 of whom were infected via local transmission. There are also 15 asymptomatic carriers under medical observation, three of whom were infected through local transmission. 

Meanwhile, the mainland also saw 23 new imported cases, of which nine were reported in Shanghai, eight in Yunnan, three in Fujian, two in Guangdong, and one in Shandong.

Two suspected cases arriving from outside the mainland were newly reported in Shanghai on Wednesday.

No deaths related to COVID-19 were newly reported, the commission added.

By the end of Wednesday, a total of 7,552 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Among them, 6,847 had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 705 remained hospitalized. No deaths had been reported among the imported cases.

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The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland reached 93,374 by Wednesday, including 1,285 patients still receiving treatment, 26 of whom were in severe condition.

A total of 87,453 patients had been discharged from hospitals following recovery on the mainland, and 4,636 had died as a result of the virus.

There were two suspected COVID-19 cases on the mainland on Wednesday.

A total of 54 asymptomatic cases were newly reported. There were a total of 527 asymptomatic cases, of which 377 were imported, under medical observation on Wednesday.

By the end of Wednesday, 11,996 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 212 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), while 63 cases had been reported in the Macao SAR, and 15,742 cases, including 791 deaths, had been reported in Taiwan.

A total of 11,721 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, while 54 had been discharged in the Macao SAR, and 12,957 had been discharged in Taiwan.

More than 1.72 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered on the mainland by Wednesday, the commission said.