SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China reported 5,643 new COVID-19 infections on Nov. 6, of which 569 were symptomatic and 5,074 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Monday.
That is compared with 4,610 new cases a day earlier – 588 symptomatic and 4,022 asymptomatic infections – which China counts separately.
There were no new deaths, same as a day earlier, keeping fatalities at 5,226. As of Nov. 6, mainland China had confirmed 264,123 cases with symptoms.
China’s capital Beijing reported 41 symptomatic and 18 asymptomatic cases, compared with 43 symptomatic and six asymptomatic case the previous day, local government data showed.
Financial hub Shanghai reported no symptomatic and two asymptomatic cases, compared with no symptomatic and five asymptomatic cases a day before, the local health authority reported.
The southern technology hub of Shenzhen reported four new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, versus two the day before.
Guangzhou, also in the south, reported 122 new locally transmitted symptomatic and 1,813 asymptomatic cases, compared with 66 symptomatic and 1,259 asymptomatic cases a day before, authorities in the city of nearly 19 million people said.
(Reporting by Wang Jing and Liz Lee; Editing by Tom Hogue)
