Fourteen people in Shufu County of Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, tested positive for COVID-19 on October 29, local authorities said.
A new round of free county-wide testing was carried out on October 29 in Shufu, according to Wang Xijiang, deputy director of Kashgar's disease control and prevention center.
All of the 14 people had previously tested negative and been quarantined for medical observation after a program of COVID-19 testing for all 4.75 million people in Kashgar was completed on October 27 following reports of new local cases, Wang said.
As of October 28, Xinjiang had 45 confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which three were in a severe condition, and 138 asymptomatic ones, all in Shufu County.
