A resident receives the COVID 19 vaccine at Pulan County People's Hospital in Ali prefecture, southwest China's autonomous region of Tibet, on May 18, 2021. SUN RUIBO XINHUA BEIJING SHANGHAI parts of Tibet are running mass COVID 19 testing on Tuesday, including the Chinese autonomous region's two largest cities, in order to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in Hainan province and in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
In Tibet, where only one symptomatic COVID 19 infection had been found in more than 900 days, local authorities reported one local patient with confirmed symptoms and 21 asymptomatic infections on Aug 8.
Lhasa, Tibet's biggest city and provincial capital, has suspended large events and closed various entertainment and religious venues.
Tibet's second-largest city, Shigatse, entered three days of curbs.
The second round would begin on Wednesday, and Lhasa and Shigatse are running a fresh round of mass testing, state television said on Tuesday.
Three towns in Tibet's Ngari prefecture have started three rounds of mass testing, while the rest are in their first round, state television said.
On Aug 3, 2022, people scan health codes before entering a grocery store in Sanya, Hainan province. The National Health Commission said on Monday that 350 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID 19 cases were reported in the Chinese mainland, of which 300 were in Hainan province.
The commission said that there were 478 local asymptomatic carriers that have been identified on the day, including 171 in Hainan and 146 in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
After recovering on the Chinese mainland Monday, 108 COVID 19 patients were discharged from hospitals.
The total number of COVID 19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovery reached 223,878 on the Chinese mainland as of Monday.
The death toll was 5,226, with no new deaths from COVID - 19, according to the commission.