Chinese mainland reports no new COVID-19 cases

Beijing: No new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported Saturday across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Sunday.

Meanwhile, 10 confirmed COVID-19 cases arriving from outside the mainland were reported, the commission said in its daily report. One new suspected COVID-19 case from outside the mainland was reported in Shanghai, and no new deaths related to the disease were reported, the commission said.

The National Health Commission said Sunday that 13 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the Chinese mainland Saturday.

There were 168 patients still being treated, the commission said in its daily report.

Altogether 80,477 patients had been cured and discharged from hospitals by Saturday, the report said.

As of Saturday, a total of 85,279 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, among whom 4634 died of the disease.

Beijing offers food coupons

Beijing started to offer the first batch of three million coupons on Saturday to boost the city’s consumption of food delivery services, according to the municipal commerce bureau.

Jointly funded by the municipal government and two major food delivery platforms Ele.me and Meituan, with price cuts of catering businesses, all coupons worth 300 million yuan (about 44.3 million U.S. dollars) in total will be issued until mid-December.

More than 70,000 restaurants have so far participated in the distribution of the first batch of coupons, the bureau said. Customers can redeem the coupons within seven days after receiving them.

Beijing has for several rounds issued millions of coupons which could be used at participating restaurants, retailers and franchise stores since June.