China reports 21 new COVID-19 cases

China reports 21 new COVID-19 cases
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China reports 21 new COVID-19 cases
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China has reported 21 new COVID-19 infections, including 13 asymptomatic ones, taking the number of cases in the country to 82,941, health authorities said on Saturday, as Wuhan city, where the outbreak originated, ramped up efforts for the mass testing of its 11 million residents

Beijing : China has reported 21 new COVID-19 infections, including 13 asymptomatic ones, taking the number of cases in the country to 82,941, health authorities said on Saturday, as Wuhan city, where the outbreak originated, ramped up efforts for the mass testing of its 11 million residents.

China's National Health Commission said that of the eight new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported on Friday, six were imported infections.

The other two cases are both domestically transmitted and reported in Jilin Province, which recently went into lockdown mode after reporting a cluster of cases, it said.

But the numbers of asymptomatic cases continued to increase as 13 more cases were reported on Friday.

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