People walk in Hankou Jiangtan Park in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2020. As the novel coronavirus epidemic continued to ease, normal life in Wuhan has gradually resumed. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 81,439 by the end of Saturday, including 2,691 patients who were still being treated, 75,448 patients who had been discharged after recovery, and 3,300 people who died of the disease.

BEIJING, March 29  -- Chinese health authority said Sunday it received reports of 45 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Saturday, of which 44 were imported.

A new domestic case was reported in Henan Province, the National Health Commission said.

Of the imported cases, eight were in Guangdong Province, seven each in Shanghai and Tianjin, four in Beijing, three each in Liaoning, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, two in Sichuan Province and one each in Chongqing, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi, Jilin, Fujian, Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces, according to the commission.

By the end of Saturday, 693 imported cases had been reported, said the commission.

Also on Saturday, five deaths and 28 new suspected cases were reported on the mainland, with all the deaths in Hubei Province.

On Saturday, 477 people were discharged from the hospital after recovery, while the number of severe cases decreased by 179 to 742.