Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Thursday reported one new confirmed COVID-19 case transmitted locally and 28 new confirmed cases from overseas, the provincial health commission said Friday.
All the new imported cases were Chinese nationals returning from Russia. Of them, 12 were previously asymptomatic patients, according to the commission.
By Thursday, the province had reported a total of 155 confirmed imported COVID-19 cases. It had traced 1,395 close contacts, with 1,037 still under medical observation.
On Thursday, Heilongjiang reported 11 new imported asymptomatic patients, all of them Chinese nationals returning from Russia. The province had a total of 152 imported asymptomatic patients by Thursday.
