China reports surge in symptomless COVID-19 infections

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
4.75 million people in the Kashgar area triggered by an asymptomatic infection in a 17-year-old female garment factory worker reported on
Saturday
routine testing but it was not clear why she was subject to such testing, Chinese media reported quoting health officials.Contact tracing
reported in the mainland on Oct
publishing daily counts starting from those reported on March 31.More than 2.84 million people in the Kashgar area had already been tested
for COVID-19 as of Sunday afternoon and the rest expect to be completed by Tuesday
The scale and speed of the testing is in line with those seen during other outbreaks including the most recent one in Qingdao earlier this
another wave of infections and maintains mass and rapid testing capabilities.The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China
to date now stands at 85,810, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.