Medical workers transfer samples for nucleic acid testing in Ejina Banner of Alxa League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 28, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)

The Chinese mainland reported 78 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 59 domestically transmitted and 19 imported, the National Health Commission said Saturday.

Among the imported cases, five were reported in Shanghai, four in Zhejiang, two each in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Hubei and Guangdong, one each in Fujian and Guangxi, the commission said in its daily report.

Among the local cases 26 were reported in Heilongjiang, 19 in Inner Mongolia, 11 in Gansu, two in Beijing and one in Ningxia, the commission said.

There were 763 active cases on Chinese mainland as of Friday, with 39 in critical condition. No deaths related to the disease were reported, while 16 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals.

The total number of confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland stood at 97,080, with the death toll unchanged at 4,636.