SHANGHAI (Reuters) -&nbsp;China&nbsp;reported&nbsp;7,679&nbsp;new&nbsp;COVID-19 infections on&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;12, of which 2,315 were symptomatic and 5,364 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.
That compared with&nbsp;8,838&nbsp;new&nbsp;cases&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;&ndash; 2,240 symptomatic and 6,598 asymptomatic infections, which&nbsp;China&nbsp;counts separately.
Overall&nbsp;cases&nbsp;have dropped as&nbsp;China&nbsp;does less testing on its population, part of a broad relaxation of its&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;zero-COVID&nbsp;policy.
Excluding imported infections,&nbsp;China&nbsp;reported 7,451&nbsp;new&nbsp;local&nbsp;cases, of which 2,270 were symptomatic and 5,181 were asymptomatic, down from 8,626 a&nbsp;day&nbsp;earlier.
There were no deaths, compared with zero the previous&nbsp;day, keeping fatalities at 5,235.
As of&nbsp;Dec.&nbsp;12, mainland&nbsp;China&nbsp;had confirmed 367,627&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with symptoms.
China's capital Beijing reported 559 symptomatic and 468 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 528 symptomatic and 609 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the previous&nbsp;day, local government data showed.
Financial hub Shanghai reported 14 symptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;and 115 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 11 symptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;and&nbsp;120 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 291&nbsp;new&nbsp;locally transmitted symptomatic and 434 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 414 symptomatic and 599 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;before, local authorities said.
Chongqing reported 180&nbsp;new&nbsp;symptomatic locally transmitted&nbsp;COVID-19 infections and 1,398 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases, compared with 101 symptomatic and 1,744 asymptomatic&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the previous&nbsp;day, local government authorities said.
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(Reporting by Shanghai&nbsp;newsroom; Writing by Bernard Orr; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Edwina Gibbs)

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