Mainland China reported a rise in new confirmed coronavirus cases, reversing four days of declines. The increase has been put down to an uptick in infections involving travellers arriving from overseas.
Mainland China had 48 new cases on Monday, the National Health Commission said in a statement, up from 31 new infections a day earlier.
All of the 48 cases were imported, bringing the total number of imported cases in China to 771 as of Monday. There was no reported new case of local infection.
While locally transmitted infections in China have mostly declined, authorities are concerned about cases involving travellers who have caught the virus abroad.