COVID-19: Chinese city tests 4.7m inhabitants in 4 days


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A city in western China finished testing 4.7 million people for coronavirus in four days after workers at a factory tested positive, state media reported on Wednesday. Kashgar, in the far-western Xinjiang region, had tested its entire population by Tuesday after a coronavirus cluster emerged last week, according to the People’s Daily. A total of 183 people in Shufu County, part of Kashgar, tested positive, while the other tests came back negative, local authorities said. ALSO READ: Flood overruns Okpokunou, 5 other Delta communities Of those who tested positive, 161 patients were asymptomatic, and 22 had developed symptoms. The coronavirus...