(Yicai Global) June 16 -- Shanghai reported three more imported novel coronavirus cases yesterday, taking the eastern metropolis' total confirmed Covid-19 cases to 695, the city's health commission said this morning.

All the new additions are Chinese citizens.Two of them, who had been studying in the United States, travelled back to Shanghai on June 2. The third patient who had been working in Singapore arrived at the Pudong International Airport on June 11, according to the commission.

Authorities have traced 118 people who had been in contact with the patients during their journey and placed them under quarantine, the commission said.

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 354 imported Covid-19 cases so far, 21 patients are being treated and 333 have been discharged upon recovery, the commission said.

It added one suspected case, also involving people who had recently been overseas, is undergoing further test.

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