People who finished quarantine wait to get documents before leaving a designated quarantine site in Beijing, China, July 11, 2020. (ZHANG CHENLIN / XINHUA)

The Chinese health authority said Friday that it received reports of 10 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Thursday, of which one was domestically transmitted.

The domestically transmitted case was reported in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the National Health Commission said

The domestically transmitted case was reported in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in its daily report.

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Four of the new imported cases were reported in Guangdong, while Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangxi and Shaanxi each saw one imported case, the NHC said.

The nine new imported COVID-19 cases brought the total number of imported cases to 1,998, the commission said.

Among all the imported cases, 1,912 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 86 remained hospitalized, with three in severe condition, it said, adding that no deaths related to the disease were reported Thursday.

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Also on Thursday, 18 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the mainland, the NHC said.

It said there were 251 patients still being treated, including three in severe condition, while a total of78,737 patients had been cured and discharged from hospitals as of Thursday.

Also as of Thursday, a total of 83,622 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, among whom 4,634 died of the disease, the commission said.

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