SHANGHAI (CHINA) – China reported 49 new COVID-19 cases for Nov. 2, from 24 a day earlier, the national health authority reported on Tuesday.
The National Health Commission said in a statement 44 of the new cases were imported infections originating from overseas and the remaining were locally transmitted cases in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
Four of the 44 cases were people, who were on a flight to the central city of Wuhan from New Delhi, India.
They were the city’s first imported cases since Aug. 7.
The commission also reported 61 new asymptomatic cases. Of the total, 19 were passengers on the same flight from New Delhi to Wuhan, where the virus first emerged last year.
Xinjiang region reported 13 new local asymptomatic cases in Kashgar.
Authorities in the region have been conducting large-scale testing in Kashgar and Kizilsu in Xinjiang’s latest outbreak.
As of Nov. 2, Kashgar had 62 confirmed cases, while Kashgar and Kizilsu had a total of 231 asymptomatic cases.
The total number of confirmed cases in China now stands at 86,070, while the death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.
