From 00:00 on December 17th to 24:00, 2 new local confirmed cases were reported in Guangdong Province, all of which were reported in Dongguan. 1 case was found in the close connection included in the centralized isolation observation, and 1 case was found in the large-scale population nucleic acid screening.
There were 5 newly imported confirmed cases in Guangdong province, of which 1 case was transferred to asymptomatic infection. Guangzhou reported 3 cases, from Laos, Malaysia and Iran; Shenzhen reported 2 cases, both from the United States.
There were 3 newly imported cases of asymptomatic infections imported from abroad, Shenzhen reported 2 cases, both from Venezuela; Foshan reported 1 case, from Saudi Arabia.
2 new cases were discharged and 67 cases are currently in hospital.
As of 24:00 on December 17, a total of 6,538 cases of positive infections of new coronary pneumonia have been reported in the province (4583 imported from abroad), of which 3366 were confirmed cases (1786 imported from abroad) and 3172 were asymptomatic infections (2797 imported from abroad) .