The Beijing Health Commission said on Monday that nine more COVID-19 cases, all locally transmitted, were recorded in the past 24 hours, raising total infections related to a local market cluster to 236 since June 11, when the first case was detected.

It's the lowest daily increase of confirmed cases in over a week.

The nine new cases were reported from five Beijing districts: five from Fengtai, two from Haidian and one each from Xicheng and Chaoyang.

The commission said two suspected cases and five asymptomatic cases were also registered on Sunday.

No imported case was reported in the Chinese capital in the past 24 hours, it added.

Beijing's coronavirus situation remains 'grim and complex' despite positive trend: Official

The epidemic situation in Beijing remains grim and complex despite positive trend in COVID-19 containment, said Xu Hejian, spokesperson for the municipal government, on Monday afternoon.

Xu's comments came after Beijing recorded nine more locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases on Sunday, marking the lowest daily increase of confirmed cases in over a week.

As of Sunday, three confirmed cases were traced to two construction sites in Beijing, which have been under closed-off management, an official from the city's housing and urban-rural development committee said at the briefing. 

So far, Beijing has classified 39 areas as medium-risk for the coronavirus, four others have been classified as high-risk, an app of China's State Council showed on Monday.