Chinese health authority said Wednesday that it received reports of 101 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, including 98 locally-transmitted cases and three imported ones.
Eighty-nine of the 98 locally-transmitted cases were reported in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, eight in Liaoning Province, and one in Beijing Municipality, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.
No deaths related to the disease or new suspected COVID-19 cases were reported Tuesday. Of the domestic transmissions, 89 were reported in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, eight in the Liaoning Province, and one in Beijing, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.
No deaths related to the disease were registered on Tuesday, while 10 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals.
Altogether, 78,944 patients had been discharged from hospitals by Tuesday, the report said, adding that a total of 84,060 COVID-19 cases had been reported on the Chinese mainland, including 4,634 deaths.
The total confirmed cases in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and the Taiwan region are as follows:
Hong Kong: 2,884 (1,527 recoveries, 23 deaths)
Macao: 46 (46 recoveries)
Taiwan: 467 (440 recoveries, seven deaths)