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Fortune
Erin Prater

China has a new strategy for keeping official COVID numbers down during its reopening: Stop counting many new infections

(Credit: Chen Chao—China News Service/VCG/Getty Images)

China will only release data on symptomatic COVID infections, the country announced Wednesday as it struggles to keep the virus at bay after relaxing its so-called zero-COVID restrictions.

With mandatory testing dropped, officials can no longer accurately gauge the number of people with asymptomatic infections, its National Health Commission said in a Wednesday statement, Bloomberg reported.

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