Beijing, Nov 3 — The Chinese mainland registered 49 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, including five cases of local transmission in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and 44 cases from overseas, China’s National Health Commission announced on Tuesday.
A total of 61 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were recorded on the Chinese mainland on the same day and 725 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation. No COVID-19-related deaths were reported on Monday, the commission said.
As of Monday, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 86,070 with 4,634 fatalities, while 21 COVID-19 patients were newly discharged from hospitals after recovering.
