Overall, China reported 1,275 confirmed COVID-19 cases for Sunday, the national health authority said on Monday, compared with 1,254 a day earlier.
Of the new cases, 1,219 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said, versus 1,217 on Saturday.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 5,134 compared with 4,448 a day earlier.
There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll at 4,638.
As of Sunday, mainland China had confirmed 144,515 COVID-19 cases.
China has reported more than 56,000 of these infections nationwide this month, with a surge in the north-eastern province of Jilin accounting for most of them.
In response to its biggest outbreak in two years, China has continued to enforce what it calls the “dynamic zero-COVID” approach, calling that the most economical and effective prevention strategy against COVID-19.
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