New Delhi (NVI): Chinese authorities registered zero new infections of coronavirus in the mainland on May 22, for the first time since they began reporting data in January.
The country’s National Health Commission (NHC) in a statement said, “This compared to four new cases on the previous day. There were two new suspected cases, an imported one in Shanghai and locally transmitted case in the northeastern province of Jilin.”
New asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus fell to 28 from 35 a day earlier, the NHC added.
According to the reports, the country has seen a sharp decline in locally transmitted cases since March.
However, it has continued to see an influx of imported cases, mainly involving Chinese nationals returning from abroad, while new clusters of infections in the northeastern border provinces have emerged in recent weeks.
Wuhan also reported its first cluster of infections this month, since the lockdown on the city ended on April 8, prompting authorities to warn that counter-epidemic measures could not be relaxed and a campaign to test all of Wuhan’s 11 million residents for COVID-19 was launched.
The total number of confirmed cases in the mainland stood at 82,971 and the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.
