The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 47 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases: 26 in Jiangsu Province, 14 in Henan, four in Hubei, two in Hunan and one in Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.
Also reported were 52 new imported cases, including 17 in Henan, nine each in Guangdong and Yunnan, seven in Guangxi, five in Shanghai, two in Sichuan and one each in Liaoning, Shandong and Shaanxi.
One suspected case was newly reported in Henan on Thursday.
No deaths related to COVID-19 were newly reported, the commission added.
An ICU nurse in Nanjing Public Health Center, in East China's Jiangsu Province, has tested positive for coronavirus in a routine nucleic acid test, local health commission said during a press conference on Thursday.
The nurse, a male who's 32 years old, has been stationed in hospital since July 29 and strictly abode by the epidemic prevention and control measures, and went to no other places, said Ding Xiaoping, the deputy director of Nanjing's health commission.
"It is suspected that the nurse may have been infected in the process of helping critically ill patients," Ding said.
The hospital acted immediately, with screening of close contacts of the nurse still underway.