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Coronavirus

China starts to report asymptomatic coronavirus cases

Latest tally is 36 but there are also 130 new sufferers without symptoms

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Mainland China reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday in a global coronavirus pandemic, and started to publish the daily change in cases that are free of symptoms, although the latter could complicate the picture of trends in the disease.

Almost all of Tuesday's 36 new cases involved arrivals from overseas, the National Health Commission said, down from 48 a day earlier, and taking the tally of infections to 81,554.

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