World News | China Records 77 New COVID-19 Cases in Last 24 Hours

Beijing [China], December 22 (ANI): Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics, China reported 77 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, media reports citing health authorities said on Wednesday.

According to a statement by the National Health Commission, of the new infections, 57 were locally transmitted. Most of the new local cases were in the northwestern province of Shaanxi.

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China reported 19 new asymptomatic cases, which it classifies separately from confirmed cases, also unchanged from a day earlier.

There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll at 4,636. Mainland China had 1,00,544 confirmed cases as of December 21. (ANI)

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