A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a community in Liwan district of Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, April 9, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 353 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Sunday.
Altogether 1,566 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified.
A total of 215 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Saturday, said the commission in its daily report.
The total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery reached 250,225 on the Chinese mainland as of Saturday.
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Saturday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,226.