BEIJING (Reuters) – China detected on Sunday 137 new cases of asymptomatic coronavirus in the northwestern Chinese city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang region, after the discovery of an inflamed user with the virus the previous day, the first new local cases in 10 days on the continent. China.
The 137 new cases were similar to a clothing factory: the parents of a 17-year-old woman who found out Saturday with the virus but had no symptoms were running there, an Xinjiang Health Commission official said at a press conference.
The new instances marked the first local infections in mainland China since October 14, when the site of a local cluster was detected in Qingdao. Xinjiang in August, but no new instances have been discovered in the domain since August 15.
Kashgar presented a test program Saturday night covering the region’s 4. 75 million people. By Sunday afternoon, more than 2. 84 million people had been screened and the rest would be covered in two days, the city government said in a statement.
The Kashgar government said Sunday that all schools and universities would remain closed until Friday, but that supermarkets and grocery shopping malls would remain open.
China’s national fitness commission on Sunday sent experts to advise paintings on coronavirus in Kashgar.
On Saturday, mainland China had 85,790 coronavirus shown, the fitness authority said. The death toll for COVID-19 is 4634.
(Report via Muyu Xu, Shen Yan, Brenda Goh and Ryan Woo; edited through Lincoln Feast, William Mallard and Frances Kerry)