BEIJING — No new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported on Aug 24 across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said on Aug 25.

A total of 14 confirmed cases arriving from outside the mainland were reported on Aug 24, the commission said in its daily report.

No new suspected cases nor deaths related to the disease were reported on the mainland, it added.

Of the new imported cases, four were reported in Sichuan, three in Guangdong, two each in Shanghai and Shaanxi, and one each in Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning, the commission said.

On Aug 24, 36 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, the commission said.

By the end of Aug 24, a total of 2,432 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Of them, 2,213 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 219 remained hospitalized, with three in severe condition. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

As of Aug 24, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland had reached 84,981, including 386 patients who were still being treated, with 10 in severe condition.

Altogether 79,961 people had been discharged after recovery, and 4,634 had died of the disease on the mainland, the commission said.

There were two suspected COVID-19 cases on the mainland, it added.

According to the commission, 12,370 close contacts were still under medical observation after 1,294 were discharged on Aug 24.

Also on Aug 24, 16 new asymptomatic cases, all from outside the mainland, were reported.

The commission said 374 asymptomatic cases, including 315 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation.

By Aug 24, 4,691 confirmed cases including 77 deaths had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), together with 46 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR and 487 cases including seven deaths in Taiwan.

A total of 4,052 COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 46 in the Macao SAR, and 457 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.