URUMQI: The Party chief of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region called on a border city to rapidly deploy nucleic acid testing among high-risk groups, tighten closed loop management at border ports while also increasing nucleic acid testing of imported goods, after Horgos, which borders Kazakhstan, found two asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday.
The city identified the two silent carriers during a regular nucleic acid testing conducted every three days, and they were transported to a local designated hospital for quarantine and medical observation, the Xinjiang Daily reported.
Horgos has quarantined 192 close contacts, with contact tracing and massive nucleic acid testing for high-risk groups underway.
In a video conference that addresses the Horgos cases on Sunday, Chen Quanguo, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, urged local governments to take resolute and decisive measures to cut off the chain of transmission and limit the epidemic to a local area. Nucleic acid testing should be rapidly deployed targeting high-risk groups, and Chen also urged vaccination for local residents.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
