Chinese mainland reports 353 new local confirmed Covid-19 cases, 260 in Shanghai

Beijing, May 4 (IANS) The Chinese mainland has reported 353 locally-transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases, of which 260 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report on Wednesday.The rest of the cases were reported in 11 other provincial-level regions, including Beijing, Henan and Sichuan, Xinhua news agency reported.Shanghai also reported 4,722 locally-transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, out of a total of 5,075 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland.A total of 2,092 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday.That brought the mainland's total number of Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery to 198,550 as of Tuesday.A total of 16 new deaths from Covid-19 have been reported, all in Shanghai, according to the report.
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