A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a community testing site for COVID-19 in Yunyan district of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, Sept 5, 2022. (YANG WENBIN / XINHUA)

BEIJING - The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 173 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 58 were in Sichuan and 44 were in Guizhou, the National Health Commission said Tuesday.

Altogether 636 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified

Altogether 636 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified.

A total of 241 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Monday, said the commission in its report.

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The total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery reached 241,737 on the Chinese mainland as of Monday.

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