A medic takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a community in Haidian district of Beijing, capital of China, May 13, 2022. (REN CHAO / XINHUA)
BEIJING - The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 102 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 44 were in Shanghai and 41 in Beijing, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.
No new death from COVID-19 was reported on Tuesday on the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission
Five other provincial-level regions on the mainland also saw new local COVID-19 cases, including seven in Tianjin and five in Sichuan.
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Shanghai also reported 343 locally-transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, out of a total of 418 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland.
Following the recovery of 374 COVID-19 patients who were discharged from hospitals on Tuesday, there were 3,699 confirmed COVID-19 cases receiving treatment in hospitals across the Chinese mainland.
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No new death from COVID-19 was reported on Tuesday on the Chinese mainland, according to the commission.