China's Heilongjiang reports 23 new COVID-19 cases

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Saturday reported two new confirmed COVID-19 cases transmitted locally and 21 new confirmed cases from overseas, the provincial health commission said Sunday.

All the new imported cases were Chinese nationals returning from Russia. Of them, 14 were previously asymptomatic cases, according to the commission.

By Saturday, the province had reported a total of 198 confirmed imported COVID-19 cases. Among them, one patient has been discharged from hospital after recovery. It had traced 1,793 close contacts, with 1,370 still under medical observation.

On Saturday, Heilongjiang reported five new imported asymptomatic carriers, all of them Chinese nationals returning from Russia, bringing the tally of imported asymptomatic cases in the province to 137 by Saturday.