Most of the new local cases were in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, where the capital city Xi'an has been on lockdown to try to control the spread of the disease. Zhejiang province also reported new cases.
China also reported 35 new asymptomatic cases, which it classifies separately from confirmed cases, compared with 52 a day earlier.
There were no new fatalities, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636. Mainland China had 102,666 confirmed cases as of the end of January 2.
