An epidemic prevention employees member processes a protecting goggle at Karasu port of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area, Oct. 16, 2020.(Photograph: Xinhua)
The Nationwide Well being Fee underneath China’s State Council, the cupboard, has despatched a working group to instruct the epidemic prevention work in Yili prefecture, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area, after two silent circumstances have been detected there on Sunday.
Two asymptomatic COVID-19 circumstances have been present in Horgos, a port metropolis administrated by Yili prefecture of Xinjiang, which borders Kazakhstan, throughout an everyday nucleic acid testing performed each three days in accordance with an order from the nationwide well being fee, the Xinjiang Day by day reported.
Horgos has quarantined 192 shut contacts, with contact tracing and big nucleic acid testing for high-risk teams now underway.
By 24:00 pm Sunday, aside from the two asymptomatic circumstances detected in Horgos metropolis, native officers discovered no optimistic circumstances. They may proceed to implement a large-scale nucleic acid testing within the metropolis on Monday.
Based on the order of Yili prefecture’s epidemic prevention division, vacationers shouldn’t depart the area in the intervening time. Flights in a number of Xinjiang airports have been canceled on Sunday evening, the Beijing Youth Day by day reported, in a precaution measure to stop potential virus-carriers from spreading the illness to different provinces and cities in China.
