Mainland reports 7 new COVID-19 cases, all imported

There are seven new imported confirmed cases on the mainland as of Monday, bringing the number of imported cases to 1,731 so far, according to a release by the National Health Commission on Tuesday morning.

The commission said that no deaths and no suspected cases were added on Monday.

Of the seven newly added confirmed cases, all imported from abroad, five of them are in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, one in Shanghai and one in Fujian province.

According to the release, the mainland now has 81 confirmed cases under treatment with seven of them in critical condition, and has five people suspected of being infected. There are 82,992 confirmed cases reported on the mainland as of Monday and 78,277 patients who have been released from hospitals. The coronavirus so far has claimed 4,634 lives nationwide.

As of Monday, the mainland has traced 743,188 people in close contact with patients confirmed with COVID-19 and 5,616 of them are still under medical observation. 

The commission said that the number of asymptomatic patients increased by 29 on Monday - with one arriving from overseas, and none of them confirmed of infection on the same day. 

About 403 asymptomatic people are still under medical observation as of Monday.

The health commission has so far received reports of 1,551 confirmed cases from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan, with Hong Kong having 1,065 with four deaths reported, Macao 45 and Taiwan 441 with seven deaths.