BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported on Friday 26 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the mainland, down from 46 cases a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission.
Of the new cases on Thursday, 15 were imported infections, the health authority said, compared with 34 a day earlier.
The remaining 11 confirmed cases were locally transmitted infections, down from 12 a day earlier.
That brings the total number of confirmed cases to 82,367 as of Thursday.
The number of new asymptomatic cases increased to 66 from 64 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.
No new deaths were reported.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo, Lusha Zhang and Se Young Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
