Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 17 Mar 2022, 10:14 pm Print
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Beijing: China registered 2,388 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, continuing the trend of spike in daily count, media reports said on Friday.
Of the new local infections, 1,834 were reported in the province of Jilin, 113 in Fujian, 74 in Guangdong, and 61 in Tianjin and Shandong respectively, reports Xinhua.
The rest of the cases were reported in 16 other provincial-level regions, including Shanghai and Liaoning.
A total of 73 imported COVID-19 cases were reported Thursday, said the National Health Commission in its daily report.
Six new suspected cases, all arriving from outside the mainland, were reported in Shanghai, said the commission.
However, no deaths due to the virus were reported that day.
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