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Seven people have tested Covid-19 positive on Aug 9 in Ngari prefecture and Shigatse city, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Aug 10, taking the officially reported total in Tibet autonomous region (TAR) in the current outbreak to 29. Five are from Shigatse－two confirmed and three asymptomatic – while the other two are from Ngari’s Purang (Chinese: Burang) County, both asymptomatic. As of Aug 9 evening, TAR had four confirmed cases and 25 asymptomatic infections, breaking its 920-day infection-free streak, said a chinadaily.com.cn report Aug 9. Three makeshift hospitals had been set up in the cities of Lhasa (built at a sports...
