China reports record number of daily COVID-19 cases

Chinese National Health Commission reported 32,695 new local cases on Thursday, of which 3,041 were symptomatic and 29,654 were asymptomatic.

“As of 24:00 on Nov 24, the National Health Commission had received reports of 300,619 confirmed cases and 5,232 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the Chinese mainland, and in all 267,223 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital,” the commission said.

“There still remained 28,164 confirmed cases (including 121 cases in serious condition) and 1 suspected case. 11,178,362 people had been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. 1,527,908 were still under medical observation,” it added. (ILKHA)