A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid testing at Balizhuang Subdistrict in Chaoyang District, Beijing, capital of China, on June 11, 2022. (LI XIN / XINHUA)

Wednesday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll standing at 5,226.

BEIJING – The Chinese mainland Wednesday reported 13 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, including nine in Shanghai, three in Beijing, and one in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the National Health Commission said Thursday.

A total of 18 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified in four provincial-level regions, including seven in Jilin and five in Liaoning.
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Altogether 93 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 patients discharged to 219,454 on the Chinese mainland as of Wednesday. 

Wednesday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll standing at 5,226.

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