Day: January 13, 2021

(Xinhua)11:24, August 01, 2020

URUMQI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported 31 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, the regional health commission said Saturday.

The 31 patients were all in the regional capital Urumqi, according to the commission.

The region also saw eight new asymptomatic cases in Urumqi on Friday.

As of Friday, Xinjiang had 547 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 109 asymptomatic cases, and 14,540 people were still under medical observation.

(Xinhua)11:24, August 01, 2020

SHENYANG, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinas Liaoning Province reported eight new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, the provincial health commission said Saturday.

All new confirmed patients are in the city of Dalian and five of them were previously asymptomatic cases, according to the commission.

Dalian also reported four new asymptomatic cases on Friday.

As of Friday, the province had reported a total of 241 confirmed cases, including 33 imported ones. There are 35 asymptomatic cases still under medical observation.

(Xinhua)13:51, August 01, 2020

BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese health authority said Saturday that it received reports of 45 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Friday, 39 of which were domestically transmitted.

Of the domestically transmitted cases, 31 were reported in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and eight were in Liaoning Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.

No deaths related to the disease or new suspected COVID-19 cases were reported Friday, the commission said.

On Friday, 15 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery.

As of Friday, the overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 84,337, including 714 patients who were still being treated, with 39 in severe condition.

Altogether 78,989 people had been discharged after recovery, and 4,634 had died of the disease, the commission said.

Six new imported cases were reported on Friday, of which four were reported in Shanghai and two in Guangdong.

By the end of Friday, a total of 2,069 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Of the cases, 1,989 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 80 remained hospitalized with three in severe condition. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

There were still two suspected COVID-19 cases, the commission said.

According to the commission, 20,278 close contacts were still under medical observation after 589 people were discharged from medical observation Friday.

Also on Friday, 23 new asymptomatic cases, including 11 from outside the mainland, were reported and five asymptomatic cases were re-categorized as confirmed cases.

The commission said 252 asymptomatic cases, including 99 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation.

By Friday, 3,272 confirmed cases including 27 deaths had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 46 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 467 in Taiwan including seven deaths.

A total of 1,751 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 46 in the Macao SAR, and 441 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.

(Xinhua)12:48, August 02, 2020

HONG KONG, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) held a flag-hoisting ceremony on Saturday to mark the 93rd anniversary of the PLAs founding.

At the ceremony held in the early morning at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks, Commander of the PLA Garrison Chen Daoxiang extended greetings to all the service members of the garrison, and expressed gratitude to the HKSAR government, the central governments agencies in Hong Kong and people from all walks of life in Hong Kong for their care and support for the garrisons development.

Chen pointed out that the promulgation and implementation of the law on safeguarding national security in the HKSAR marks a milestone for the practice of one country, two systems.

Safeguarding Hong Kongs prosperity and stability, the PLA garrison will unswervingly defend national sovereignty, security and development interests, and steadily push forward the sustained successful practice of one country, two systems, Chen said.

The garrison will also work with the HKSAR government, the central governments agencies in Hong Kong and people who love the country and Hong Kong to guard Hong Kongs journey to a fresh start, he added.