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<br>SHANGHAI, May 23 (Reuters) - China recorded no new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] for May 22, the first time it had seen no daily rise in the number of cases since the pandemic began in the central city of Wuhan late last year.<br> <br>The National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Saturday that this compared to four new cases on the previous day.<br><br>It said, however, there were two new suspected cases: an imported one in Shanghai and locally transmitted case in the northeastern province of Jilin.<br> <br>New asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus fell to 28 from 35 a day earlier, the NHC said.<br> <br>China has seen a sharp fall in locally transmitted cases since March as major restrictions on people movement helped it to take control of the epidemic in many parts of the country.<br> <br>However, it has continued to see an influx of imported cases,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] mainly involving Chinese nationals returning from abroad, while new clusters of [http://www.britannica.com/search?query=infections infections] in the northeastern border provinces of Jilin and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] Heilongjiang have emerged in recent weeks.<br> <br>Wuhan also reported this month its first cluster of infections since a lockdown on the city ended on April 8, prompting authorities to warn that counter-epidemic measures could not be relaxed and to launch a campaign to test all of Wuhan's 11 million residents for COVID-19.<br> <br>The number of confirmed cases in the mainland stood at 82,971 and the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.<br><br>(Reporting by Brenda Goh; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Muralikumar Anantharaman)<br>