SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China&nbsp;reported&nbsp;2,157&nbsp;new&nbsp;symptomatic&nbsp;COVID-19 infections on&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;15, compared with&nbsp;2,000&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier, the National Health Commission said on Friday.
Excluding imported infections,&nbsp;China&nbsp;reported 2,091&nbsp;new&nbsp;local&nbsp;symptomatic&nbsp;cases, up from 1,944 a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier.
China&nbsp;stopped reporting asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;from Wednesday, citing a lack of testing among people with no symptoms that was making it difficult to accurately tally the total count.
There were no&nbsp;new&nbsp;deaths, compared with none the previous&nbsp;day, keeping fatalities at 5,235.
As of&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;15, mainland&nbsp;China&nbsp;had confirmed 374,075&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with symptoms.
Official figures have become an unreliable guide as less testing is being done across the country following the recent easing of zero-COVID&nbsp;policies.
China's capital Beijing reported 428&nbsp;symptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 494&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the previous&nbsp;day, local government data showed.
Financial hub Shanghai reported 36&nbsp;symptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 22 a&nbsp;day&nbsp;before, the local health authority reported.
Guangzhou, a city in the south of nearly 19 million people said, reported 505&nbsp;new&nbsp;locally transmitted&nbsp;cases&nbsp;compared with 370 a&nbsp;day&nbsp;before, local authorities said.
Chongqing reported&nbsp;154&nbsp;new&nbsp;symptomatic&nbsp;locally transmitted&nbsp;COVID&nbsp;infections, compared with 143 the previous&nbsp;day, local government authorities said.
(Reporting by Wang Jing and Liz Lee; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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