Pupils get inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines at Weiming elementary school in Weiming village, Shinan township, Xingye county, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov 18, 2021. (CAO YIMING / XINHUA)

BEIJING - The latest COVID-19 resurgence in China has entered its final stage, a health official said Saturday.

So far, eight of the provincial-level regions affected by the latest resurgence have registered no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for at least 14 consecutive days, said Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, at a press conference.

The epidemic situation in the virus-hit border or port cities, including Ejina, Heihe and Dalian, has been dealt with quickly and effectively. Also, multiple provincial-level regions managed to contain the outbreak within around an incubation period, according to Mi.  

The Chinese mainland on Friday reported three new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Saturday.

Of the three local cases, two were reported in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province, and one in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin province, the commission said.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland has reached 98,450 by Friday, including 1,158 patients still receiving treatment, of whom 12 were in severe condition

Friday also saw reports of 20 imported cases in six provincial-level regions, it said.

No new deaths from COVID-19 or new suspected cases were reported on Friday, it added.

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The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland has reached 98,450 by Friday, including 1,158 patients still receiving treatment, of whom 12 were in severe condition.

A total of 92,656 patients had been discharged from hospitals following recovery on the mainland, and 4,636 had died as a result of the virus.

A total of 16 asymptomatic cases were newly reported, 15 of whom were from outside the mainland. There were a total of 487 asymptomatic cases, including 345 arriving from outside the mainland, under medical observation as of Friday.

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