China did not register any new confirmed case of coronavirus for the first time last Friday since the pandemic began and detected only two suspected cases, as reported this Saturday by the National Health Commission of the Asian giant.
Since last May 11 new daily confirmed cases in China remained below ten but until now they had never managed to reach zero. The two suspected cases detected on Friday (one locally in the city of Shanghai and another from abroad in the northeastern province of Jilin, bordering Russia and North Korea) did not reach the category of confirmed, according to the Commission. .
79 active cases
The day before, four new cases had been recorded, two of them also in Jilin, where in recent weeks more than thirty infected related to Chinese nationals returning to their country from Russia have been detected. In the last 24 hours there has been no new death either, three patients were discharged and 252 contacts close to those infected were no longer observed.
The total number of active cases from abroad rises to 41, two of them in serious condition. The total number of active cases in China stands at 79, nine of them serious, and the number confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 82,971, of which 4,634 have died.
In the last day, 28 asymptomatic cases were detected (compared to 35 the day before), two of them imported, although none happened on Friday to be considered as a confirmed case. Asymptomatic patients under observation rose to 370, 26 of them from abroad.
32 active cases remain in Hong Kong among the 1,065 total cases detected in the former British colony, of which four have died, while in Taiwan there are 26 active cases between 441 and 7 deaths recorded on the island since the beginning of the pandemic.
The increase in imported cases
Since last March, China has seen a considerable drop in the transmission of new cases of the virus locally, after drastic prevention and movement limitation measures helped control the pandemic in many parts of the country.
However, at the same time, the country has seen the growth of new cases “imported” from abroad, the vast majority of them related to Chinese returning from other countries severely affected by the virus.
In the last weeks, Northeast Chinese provinces bordering Russia, such as Jilin and Heilongliang, have seen a significant increase of the number of “imported” cases, which has led to the imposition of strict measures to limit movements in cities in that area.
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