URUMQI: The Kashgar Prefecture in southwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has completed COVID-19 tests for all 4.74 million residents in the region as of Tuesday afternoon, according to local health authorities. A total of 183 people in the region have tested positive, while the rest of the residents tested negative for COVID-19.
The Kashgar Prefecture reported five new confirmed cases and 19 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. The local health authorities said an epidemiological survey for virus tracing is still underway, and the medical expert team has so far ruled out a connection between Kashgar and the epidemic in Urumqi in July.
On October 24, a 17-year-old female villager from Kashgar’s Shufu County was confirmed as an asymptomatic carrier of the virus during routine nucleic acid testing.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN
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