A staff member guides students to enter an exam site of the 2022 senior high school entrance examination in Pinggu district of Beijing, China, June 24, 2022. (REN CHAO/ XINHUA)

BEIJING - The Chinese mainland Monday reported one locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 case in Guangdong province, the National Health Commission said Tuesday.

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A total of 21 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified on Monday in five provincial-level regions, including six in Anhui, four each in Tianjin, Liaoning and Guangdong, and three in Guangxi.

Altogether 77 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Monday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 patients discharged to 219,868 on the Chinese mainland as of Monday.

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