Xinjiang Capital Urumqi on Lockdown Amidst New Outbreak of Coronavirus


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Authorities in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) have actually purchased a lockdown, cancelling almost all flights in and out of the city, after verifying a minimum of 17 cases of infection from the coronavirus. According to official figures, the city of 3.5 million has actually tape-recorded just 6 symptomatic cases of COVID-19– the illness brought on by the coronavirus– and 11 asymptomatic cases, however official media reports stated almost 90 percent of flights into and out of the Urumqi Diwopu International Airport were cancelled and public transport was closed down Friday as part of...