APPROXIMATELY 172,000 Taiwan compatriots had received COVID-19 vaccines on the mainland, with a total of 330,000 shots administered as of Nov. 15, a mainland spokesperson said yesterday.

Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said this during a regular press conference.

As for the mainland, more than 2.449 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered here as of Tuesday, data from the National Health Commission showed yesterday.

The mainland Tuesday reported four new locally transmitted cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report yesterday.

Of the four local cases, two were reported in Liaoning and the other two in Yunnan, the commission said.

Tuesday also saw reports of 18 imported cases in six provincial-level regions, it said.

No new suspected cases or new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported Tuesday, said the commission.

(Xinhua)