BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 3 new coronavirus cases for May 13, down from 7 cases a day earlier, the country’s health commission said.
All of the new cases were locally transmitted – two in the northeastern Liaoning province and one in Jilin province that borders Liaoning, the National Health Commission said in a statement on Thursday.
The number of new asymptomatic cases rose to 12 from 8 a day earlier.
The total number of cases now stands at 82,929 while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,633.
(Reporting by Se Young Lee, Lusha Zhang and Jing Wang; Editing by Kim Coghill)
