China reports no COVID-19 deaths for 27 days

No additional deaths caused by COVID-19 were registered for the 27th day in a row on Monday, as the Chinese mainland detected one further confirmed case and another suspected infection among inbound arrivals, according to data from the National Health Commission.

To date, the case count of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus on the Chinese mainland has reached 82,919. All three suspected cases on record are inbound arrivals.

Following a daily drop of 27, the number of patients under treatment now stands at 115, and 80 are imported cases. The case count of imported cases has reached 1,691.

A contrast to the continuous decline in number of patients exhibiting severe symptoms, one person was sent into intensive care on Monday, bringing up the number of such patients to 10.

None of the 15 additional asymptomatic cases registered over the course of Monday were inbound arrivals, and 38 of the 760 such cases still under medical observation are imported ones.

Of the 737,599 people that have been traced as close contacts with the infected, 5,470 are still under medical observation.

The Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan province have reported a total of 1,532 confirmed cases, including four deaths in Hong Kong and seven deaths in Taiwan, the commission noted.

Meanwhile, 1,395 recovered patients in these regions have been discharged from hospitals.