Large outbreaks have been numerous and far-flung, with the bulk recorded in the southern city of Guangzhou and southwestern Chongqing, although hundreds of new infections are reported daily in cities such as Chengdu, Jinan, Lanzhou, Xian and Wuhan.
In Shijiazhuang, cases on Thursday increased four times from the previous day to 3,197.
China’s capital Beijing reported 424 symptomatic and 1,436 asymptomatic cases on Thursday, compared with 509 symptomatic and 1,139 asymptomatic cases on Thursday, local government data showed.
Financial hub Shanghai reported nine symptomatic cases and 77 asymptomatic cases on Thursday, compared with nine symptomatic cases and 58 asymptomatic cases on Thursday, the local health authority said.
Guangzhou, a city in the south of about 19 million people, reported 257 new locally transmitted symptomatic and 7,267 asymptomatic cases yesterday, compared with 428 symptomatic and 7,192 asymptomatic cases a day earlier, local officials said.
