China is once again mass testing an entire city for the coronavirus amid a regional outbreak in Xinjiang province. Around 4.7m people in Kashgar are being tested and 138 asymptomatic cases have been found so far. China has been largely successful in bringing infection rates down but there continue to be small outbreaks. Xinjiang is home to China’s mostly-Muslim Uighur minority which rights groups say is being persecuted by the government in Beijing, reports the BBC. Schools in Kashgar have been closed and residents are not allowed to leave the…
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