BEIJING NOV 1 — The Chinese mainland registered 24 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including three cases of local transmission in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and 21 cases from overseas, China’s National Health Commission announced on Sunday.
A total of 69 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were recorded on the Chinese mainland on Saturday and 666 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation. No COVID-19-related deaths were reported on Saturday, the commission said.
As of Saturday, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland had reached 85,997 with 4,634 fatalities, while 20 COVID-19 patients were newly discharged from hospitals after recovering.
