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 104 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 41 were in Guizhou and 33 in Sichuan, according to the National Health Commission's report on Tuesday.

A total of 525 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified.

A total of 340 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Monday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery to 239,794.

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