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People wait outside a restaurant, following an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China on August 13, 2021. REUTERS / Tingshu Wang
BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Reuters) – China on Thursday reported 46 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on the mainland for Aug. 18, up from 28 a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission.
Of the new infections, five were transmitted locally, up from six a day earlier. Three of them were in Jiangsu Province, one in Shanghai and another in Yunnan Province.
China has reported 30 new cases of asymptomatic coronaviruses, which it does not classify as confirmed infections, up from a day earlier. All were cases imported from abroad.
No new deaths have been reported. As of Aug. 18, mainland China had recorded 94,546 confirmed cases, with the cumulative death toll remaining unchanged at 4,636.
Reporting by Stella Qiu, Colin Qian and Ryan Woo Editing by Shri Navaratnam
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