North China's Hebei Province reported a total of 326 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 234 asymptomatic cases from Jan. 2 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Vice Governor Xu Jianpei said on Tuesday.
Of the confirmed cases, 304 were reported in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, 21 in the city of Xingtai, and one in the city of Langfang, Xu said at a press briefing.
The province reported 21 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases from midnight Monday to 10 a.m. Tuesday. Five were reported in Xingtai and 16 in Shijiazhuang.
The National Health Commission has urgently allocated convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 cases in Wuhan for the treatment of severe patients in Hebei, said Liang Zhankai, director of Hebei provincial health commission, adding that hospitalized patients are generally in stable condition.
A total of 252 testers from other provincial-level regions have been sent to Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang to assist in nucleic acid testing and help Hebei increase its daily testing capacity to 1.1 million tubes, said Liang.
