(Reuters) – China reported six new mainland cases of COVID-19 on April 21, down from 21 cases a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Thursday.
All the new cases were imported infections that originated overseas, the National Health Commission said in a statement. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to 16 from seven a day earlier.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 90,547, while the death toll remains unchanged at 4,636.
(Reporting by Jing Wang and Emily Chow; writing by Se Young Lee; editing by Richard Pullin)
