Sunrise in Kashgar, Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.
Source: Bloomberg / Bloomberg
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In a fresh example of the country’s aggressive approach to controlling new outbreaks, China has tested nearly 200 million people in Xinjiang province.
A 17-year-old teenager in Kashgar province of the province was found by regular testing to infect the virus. Subsequent testing found 137 Kovid-19 cases, all related to the factory where the teenager’s parents worked. Each case was asymptomatic, According to health officials in Xinjiang.
Free trial is being launched for about 75.7575 million people in Kashgar, west of China. As of 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, 2.83 million people had tested positive for the virus, and 334,800 people had already been diagnosed as negative.
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Officials have imposed restrictions on mobility within 10 kilometers of the county where the cluster was found, but transport in the area remains open and could leave if they have tested negative within the last seven days. No restrictions are placed on external visitors.
While new infections in China have been below 100 a day since mid-August, with most of them being imported from foreign countries, the country has seen small flames, The most recent in the eastern port city of Qingdao earlier this month. China has managed to pull out of the clusters, including information that exploded in Beijing in June, in which millions of civilians were given the virus in a matter of days through mass testing campaigns.
The new outbreak in Kashgar reflects the difficulty of completely eradicating the coronavirus in any one country. Other Asian countries, such as Thailand and New Zealand, have maintained virus-free periods for a long time, only to see the pathogen reappear. However, the U.S. And despite struggling with fresh waves of record infections in Europe, China has so far been able to carve out every new cluster.
– With the help of Lucille Liu and Dong Liu
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