China's Guangzhou reports 654 symptomatic, 5,185 asymptomatic COVID cases for Dec 1

China's Guangzhou reported 654 new locally transmitted symptomatic COVID-19 infections and 5,185 asymptomatic cases for Dec. 1, local government authorities in the southern city of nearly 19 million people said on Friday.

This compared with 683 symptomatic and 5,629 asymptomatic cases the day before. Unlike the national health authority, Guangdong province, where Guangzhou is located, excludes asymptomatic cases who have turned symptomatic in the province’s daily count of new symptomatic infections.