New coronavirus outbreak detected in Xinjiang city of Kashgar

AKIPRESS.COM - China has detected 137 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases in Kashgar in the north-western region of Xinjiang after one person was found to have the virus the previous day - the first new local cases for 10 days in mainland China, Guardian reports.
All the cases detected on Sunday were linked to a garment factory where the parents of a 17-year-old girl who was found on Saturday to have the virus - but showed no symptoms - worked, a Xinjiang health commission official told a press briefing.
The new cases marked mainland China's first local infections since 14 October, when one was detected in Qingdao. Xinjiang was the site of a local cluster in August, which prompted a "wartime state" of lockdown in the capital Urumqi, but no new cases had been found in the region since 15 August.