A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab sample from a resident during a mass nucleic acid testing following a recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China January 6, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

China sees 55 new COVID-19 cases

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China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday that 55 new coronavirus confirmed infections were recorded over the last 24 hours, including 42 local cases.

In a daily COVID-19 statement, the commission said it had received reports of 87,591 confirmed cases and 4,634 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland.

The mainland reported 81 new asymptomatic cases, of which 10 were imported, it added.

//Petra// WH

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