China reported 16,797 new COVID-19 infections on Dec. 8, of which 3,637 were symptomatic and 13,160 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Friday.
The commission reported 21,439 new cases a day earlier – 4,079 symptomatic and 17,360 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately.
China's capital Beijing reported 1,185 symptomatic and 1,488 asymptomatic cases, compared with 1,168 symptomatic and 2,194 asymptomatic cases the previous day, local government data showed. Guangzhou, a city in the south of nearly 19 million people, reported 854 new locally transmitted symptomatic and 1,005 asymptomatic cases, compared with 911 symptomatic and 1,640 asymptomatic cases a day before, local authorities said.
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