China's largest recent Covid-19 outbreak 'emerged in Xinjiang factory linked to forced labour


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The biggest coronavirus outbreak witnessed by China in months has been linked to a factory in Xinjiang believed to be run by Uighur people recruited through forced labour. At least 190 cases of the coronavirus were recorded in the western region of Kashgar, with reports claiming the cases originated in a factory under a state-led 'poverty alleviation' effort. The outbreak represents the country's largest cluster of cases since June, when 180 infections were reported in Beijing. State media reported that the outbreak began when a 17-year-old girl tested positive on Saturday after visiting her parents. She was tested "during the...