Beijing health authorities officials, wearing a white protective suit, pack disposals after conducting a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect novel coronavirus infection in Beijing, China on June 30, 2020. The virus was found at a wholesale food market and fish market in the Chinese capital. The number of new infection has sharply risen and the Chinese government has warned of the second wave of the Covid-19 outspread. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
China recorded three new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced today.
Two of the cases were imported. The third was a local transmission in Beijing, where a new coronavirus outbreak emerged from a wholesale food market last month.
The country also reported two new asymptomatic cases on Thursday. Currently, 99 asymptomatic cases are under medical observation in China, among which 60 were imported.
As of Wednesday, China had recorded 83,537 confirmed coronavirus cases and 4,634 deaths.
