New locally transmitted cases of coronavirus in China have fallen to just 14 over the past 24 hours, AP reported, quoting the National Health Commission.

All the cases of local transmission were in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose main city Urumqi is the center of China's latest outbreak. Tightened restrictions on travel, widespread testing and a lockdown on some residential communities appear to have been effective in bringing down numbers of new infections in Urumqi, while a separate outbreak in the northeastern city of Dalian seems to have run its course.

The low figure was offset, however, by 35 cases brought into the country by Chinese travelers from overseas arriving in seven different cities and provinces across the country.