BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 2,054 new confirmed coronavirus cases on March 23, the country’s national health authority said on Thursday, down from 2,667 a day earlier.
Of the new cases, 2,010 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said, down from 2,591 a day earlier.
The majority of the new local confirmed cases were found in the northeastern province of Jilin.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 2,829, up from 2,469 a day earlier.
Shanghai accounted for 979 of the new asymptomatic cases.
There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll unchanged from a day earlier at 4,638.
As of March 23, mainland China had confirmed 139,285 cases.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo and Yifan Wang; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
