(Yicai Global) June 18 -- Shanghai reported two more imported novel coronavirus cases yesterday, taking the eastern metropolis' total confirmed Covid-19 cases to 697, the city's health commission said this morning.

Both the new additions are Pakistani citizens who arrived in Shanghai on June 2. All the close contacts who had been on the same filght with the patients during their journey had been placed under quarantine, according to the commission.

The commission logged no new confirmed domestically transmitted cases yesterday. It also reported no asymptomatic cases under observation in the city the same day.

Among the confirmed 356 imported Covid-19 cases, 22 patients are being treated and 334 have been discharged upon recovery, the commission said.

Of the 341 local cases, seven have died and 334 patients have fully recovered and been released from hospital, the commission said.