A medical worker collects a swab sample from a man for COVID-19 testing at a testing site in Ruili city, Southwest China's Yunnan province, on July 5, 2021. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINADAILY.COM.CN)
BEIJING/KUNMING/GUANGZHOU – Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong province, on Thursday was cleared of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases.
The last six patients who have recovered were discharged from Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, on Thursday morning, bringing the city's existing number of local cases to zero.
Guangzhou has not reported any local cases for 19 consecutive days, according to the city's health commission
A total of 153 locally transmitted confirmed or asymptomatic cases were reported in Guangzhou in the latest resurgence of the virus since May, but no new local cases have been reported for 19 consecutive days, according to the city's health commission.
Another 13 cases transferred from cities of Foshan and Zhanjiang have also recovered and have been discharged from the hospital.
Mainland reports 17 new cases
The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 17 new COVID-19 cases, 15 of which were imported and two were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in its daily report earlier on Thursday.
The two new local cases were reported in Yunnan's Ruili city, according to the provincial health commission.
They were previously categorized as asymptomatic infections during an all-inclusive nucleic acid testing in Ruili, the commission said.
The mainland on Wednesday reported two new local cases in Yunnan and 15 fresh imported cases
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Meanwhile, eight of the fresh imported cases were reported in Shanghai, two each in Fujian, Henan, and Guangdong, and one in Sichuan, according to the NHC.
Two new suspected cases were posted in Shanghai, both of which were imported, the NHC said, adding that no additional deaths related to COVID-19 were reported.
There were 447 patients still receiving treatment, five of whom were in severe conditions, said the NHC.
By the end of Wednesday, the mainland had reported 91,966 confirmed cases, along with 86,883 recoveries and 4,636 deaths. A total of 6,751 imported cases had been reported with no fatalities.
There were four suspected COVID-19 cases on the mainland on Wednesday.
On the same day, 10 new asymptomatic cases were reported, all arriving from outside the mainland.
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By the end of Wednesday, 11,945 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 212 deaths, had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 55 cases in the Macao SAR, and 15,128 cases, including 715 deaths, in Taiwan.
A total of 11,643 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, 53 in the Macao SAR, and 11,277 in Taiwan.
More than 1.34 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across the mainland as of Wednesday, the NHC said.