This photo shows residents wearing face masks in Beijing, capital of China, Nov 3, 2020. (NG HAN GUAN / AP)

BEIJING - Chinese health authorities said Wednesday that they received reports of 17 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, including two domestically transmitted cases and 15 imported infections.

The fresh local infections were asymptomatic cases in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region that were re-categorized as confirmed cases, according to the National Health Commission and Xinjiang health authorities.

Four of the new imported cases were reported in Shanghai, three each in Guangdong and Sichuan, two each in Inner Mongolia and Fujian, and one in Shaanxi, the National Health Commission said

For the new imported cases, four were reported in Shanghai, three each in Guangdong and Sichuan, two each in Inner Mongolia and Fujian, and one in Shaanxi, the commission said.

One new suspected imported case was posted in Shanghai, the commission said, adding that there were no reports of any additional deaths.

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According to the commission, 16 more patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, while 392 patients were still being treated, including nine in severe condition.

By the end of Tuesday, a total of 3,460 imported cases had been reported on the mainland. Of them, 3,136 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery while 324 remained hospitalized. No deaths from the imported cases had been reported.

So far, the mainland has reported a total of 86,087 confirmed cases, including 81,061 recoveries and 4,634 deaths, the commission said.

Currently, there were two suspected cases on the mainland, while 16,572 close contacts were still under medical observation after 491 were released from observation, according to the commission.

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A total of 128 new asymptomatic cases, including 12 arriving from outside the mainland, were reported, while five asymptomatic cases, including three from outside the mainland, were re-categorized as confirmed cases.

The commission said 828 asymptomatic cases, including 482 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation.

By Tuesday, 5,345 confirmed cases, including 105 deaths, have been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), while the Macao SAR has had 46 cases, and Taiwan has recorded 567 cases, including seven deaths.

A total of 5,109 patients in the Hong Kong SAR, 46 in the Macao SAR and 521 in Taiwan have been discharged from hospitals after recovery.