China has reported 30 new Covid-19 cases yesterday - up from 19 cases reported the previous day. The National Health Commission said that 25 of the latest cases involved people who had entered mainland China from abroad compared with 18 such cases a day earlier.
Five new locally transmitted infections were also reported, all in the southern coastal province of Guangdong. Mainland China has now reported a total of 81,669 cases, while the death toll has risen by three to 3,329.
Though daily infections have fallen dramatically from the height of the epidemic in February, when hundreds of new cases were reported daily, Beijing remains unable to completely halt new infections despite imposing some of the most drastic measures to curb the spread