▲A medical worker collects a sample from a person for nucleic acid testing in Shufu County of Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 26, 2020. Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region identified 26 new asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 between 4 p.m. Sunday and 4 p.m. Monday, a local health official said at a press conference on Monday. All the new cases were reported in Shufu County, south Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
Xinjiang reported 116 new asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus, with two new confirmed cases as of late Tuesday.