Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 47 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including 23 that were domestically transmitted and 24 imported.
BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 47 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including 23 that were domestically transmitted and 24 imported.
All the domestically-transmitted cases were asymptomatic cases from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that were re-categorized as confirmed cases, according to the National Health Commission (NHC) and Xinjiang’s health commission.
The 23 cases were reported in Shufu County of south Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture, the Xinjiang health commission said, adding that no new asymptomatic cases were reported on Wednesday.
No new suspected cases or new deaths related to the disease were reported, the NHC said in its daily report.