SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China&nbsp;reported&nbsp;16,797&nbsp;new&nbsp;COVID-19 infections on&nbsp;Dec. 8, of which 3,637 were symptomatic and 13,160 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Friday.
The commission reported&nbsp;21,439&nbsp;new&nbsp;cases&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;&ndash; 4,079 symptomatic and 17,360 asymptomatic infections, which&nbsp;China&nbsp;counts separately.
Excluding imported infections,&nbsp;China&nbsp;reported 16,592&nbsp;new&nbsp;local&nbsp;cases&nbsp;for Thursday, of which 3,588 were symptomatic and 13,004 were asymptomatic, down from 21,165 a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier.
There were no deaths, unchanged from the previous&nbsp;day, keeping fatalities at 5,235.
As of&nbsp;Dec. 8, mainland&nbsp;China&nbsp;had confirmed 357,652&nbsp;COVID&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with symptoms.
China's capital Beijing reported 1,185 symptomatic and 1,488 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 1,168 symptomatic and 2,194 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the previous&nbsp;day, local government data showed.
Financial hub Shanghai reported 28 symptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;and 303 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 39 symptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;and 327 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;before, the local health authority reported.
Guangzhou, a city in the south of nearly 19 million people, reported 854&nbsp;new&nbsp;locally transmitted symptomatic and 1,005 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 911 symptomatic and 1,640 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;before, local authorities said.
Chongqing reported 111&nbsp;new&nbsp;symptomatic locally transmitted&nbsp;COVID-19 infections and 2,656 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 155 symptomatic and 3,006 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the previous&nbsp;day, local government authorities said.
(Reporting by Shanghai&nbsp;newsroom; Writing by Bernard Orr; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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China reports 16,797 new COVID cases for Dec 8 vs 21,439 a day earlier