The Chinese mainland registered 34 new COVID-19 cases on Friday – five from overseas and 29 domestically transmitted, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.

Of the domestically transmitted cases, 20 are in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and nine in Liaoning Province.

Of the cases from overseas, two were reported in Shanghai, two in Guangdong Province and another in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 

No deaths related to the disease were reported Friday, while 16 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals.

The number of confirmed cases in China's Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions (SARs) are as follows:

Hong Kong SAR: 2,372 (1,407 recoveries, 16 deaths)

Macao SAR: 46  (46 recoveries)

Taiwan: 458 (440 recoveries, seven deaths)

20 new cases in Xinjiang 

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported 20 new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases on Friday, the regional health commission said Saturday.

The region also registered 38 new asymptomatic cases, all in Urumqi, on Friday.

So far, Xinjiang has 115 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 114 asymptomatic cases, with 7,170 people under medical observation.