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China sees rise in local infections, drop in imported coronavirus cases

China sees rise in local infections, drop in imported coronavirus cases

Coronavirus in China

The Chinese capital saw new local cases for the first time in more than three weeks, though there was a considerable drop in new coronavirus cases involving travellers arriving from overseas.

The number of locally transmitted cases rose to 12 from 10 a day earlier, with the city of Beijing seeing three new local cases for the first time since March 23.

New imported cases dropped to 34 on Wednesday from 36 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said, down for the third straight day.

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Mainland China reported 46 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the same as a day earlier, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 82,341.

Heilongjiang saw 16 new imported cases, all Chinese nationals who came from Russia. The province has become a front line in China's fight to keep out imported cases as infected Chinese nationals return overland from Russia.

The neighbouring autonomous region of Inner Mongolia also saw imported cases from Russia.

Guangdong saw five new cases connected to travellers from overseas.

The number of new asymptomatic cases increased to 64 from 57 a day earlier. China does not include patients with no clinical symptoms such as a cough or a fever in its tally of confirmed cases.

Some of the new confirmed cases had been counted as asymptomatic previously.