On May 22, China recorded no new coronavirus infections for the mainland, the first time it had seen no daily rise in the number of cases since the pandemic began in central Wuhan late last year.
In a statement on Saturday, the National Health Commission said this compared to four fresh cases the day before.
New asymptomatic coronavirus cases dropped from 35 a day earlier on to 28, the NHC reported.
Since March, China has seen a dramatic decline in locally-transmitted cases as massive restrictions on the travel of citizens helped it gain control of the outbreak in many parts of the country.
However, a surge of imported cases has persisted, mostly involving Chinese citizens returning from trips abroad, although new infection clusters have arisen in the northeastern border regions of Jilin and Heilongjiang in recent weeks.
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