BEIJING — The Chinese mainland on April 19 reported 2,753 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 2,494 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission (NHC)'s report on April 20.

Apart from Shanghai, 14 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new local COVID-19 cases, including 133 in the northeastern province of Jilin, and two in Beijing.

Shanghai also reported 16,407 locally transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus on April 19, out of a total of 17,066 on the mainland.

Following the recovery of 2,365 COVID-19 patients on April 19, there were 30,773 confirmed COVID-19 cases undergoing treatment in hospitals across the country.

April 19 saw seven deaths from COVID-19, all in Shanghai, bringing the mainland's total COVID-19 deaths to 4,655 since the pandemic began more than two years ago.