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China has launched a new large-scale screening campaign in the northwest of the country, where 137 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Kashgar, according to AFP.
The tests, which began on Saturday night, will cover 4.75 million people in and around Kashgar, Xinjiang province, after a young worker at a textile factory tested positive for COVID-19.
China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in late December 2019, before spreading across the world, has managed to contain the pandemic on its territory with many tests, containment measures and movement restrictions, but local outbreaks. they have arisen sporadically.
The new positive cases, all asymptomatic, are related to a factory in Shufu county where a young woman and her parents work, the Xinjiang Health Commission said.
So far, more than 2.8 million samples have been collected in the affected region and the rest of the tests are scheduled for the next two days, the local municipality said.
Kashgar, near the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, is a city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Many Uyghurs say they face political and religious persecution by the Chinese authorities, which Beijing has consistently denied.
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