News Snapshot:
BEIJING -- The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 49 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 19 in Gansu and 15 in Guangxi, the National Health Commission said Saturday. Altogether 271 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified in nine provincial-level regions. A total of 99 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland on Friday, said the commission in its report. The total number of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery reached 222,413 on the Chinese mainland as of Friday. Friday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,226.
