FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask uses a phone at a park in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit the hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Hubei province, China, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song
BEIJING (Reuters) – China recorded five new coronavirus cases for May 19, down from six a day earlier, the National Health Commission reported on Wednesday.
Four of the new cases were local tranmissions and one was a so-called imported case involving a traveller from overseas, the commission said in a statement, compared with 3 imported cases reported the previousday.
The total number of COVID-19 infections in China to date now stands at 82,965, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.
Reporting by Se Young Lee and Jing Wang; Editing by Kim Coghill
