14 more test positive for COVID-19 in south Xinjiang
Share - WeChat
URUMQI -- Fourteen people in Shufu county of Kashgar prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, local authorities said.
A new round of free county-wide testing was carried out on Thursday in Shufu, according to Wang Xijiang, deputy director of Kashgar's disease control and prevention center.
All of the 14 people had previously tested negative and been quarantined for medical observation after a program of COVID-19 testing for all 4.75 million people in Kashgar was completed on Oct 27 following reports of new local cases, Wang said.
As of Wednesday, Xinjiang had 45 confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which three were in a severe condition, and 138 asymptomatic ones, all in Shufu county.
- Permanent basic farmland inquiry platform opens to public
- China to promote medical reform in Fujian
- Sustainability promoting is applauded to research center
- Chinese theater commander attends Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defense in Hawaii
- China Railway has reached a new milestone
- Three dead, seven injured in Gansu traffic collision