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Monday, August 17, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 17, 2020
For 1st time in a month, China reports no new local COVID-19 cases
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleChina has reported no new locally spread cases of the coronavirus for the first time in a month, as twin outbreaks on opposite sides of the country have faded.
The National Health Commission does report 22 imported cases in the latest 24-hour period. China has seen a small uptick in the number of infected people arriving from abroad in the past eight days.
Health authorities have reported 84,849 cases overall and 4,634 deaths since the start of the pandemic. China does not include people who test positive but do not show symptoms in its official case count.
— AP
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