A medical worker checks a resident's information at a nucleic acid test site in Sixian county in Anhui province, on July 3, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 49 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 19 in Gansu and 15 in Guangxi, the National Health Commission said Saturday.
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Altogether 271 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified in nine provincial-level regions.
A total of 99 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Friday, said the commission in its report.
The total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery reached 222,413 on the Chinese mainland as of Friday.
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Friday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,226.