Kashgar, Oct. 26 -- : The city of Kashgar in China reported over 100 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the regional health authority said.
Gu Yingsu, the Deputy Head of the Xinjiang Health Committee, told a press conference that all 137 new cases were related to one identified in a 17-year-old villager in Shufu county the previous day, South China Morning Post reported.
Gu said the cases were all related to a factory in a neighbouring village where the girl's parents worked, as per the South China Morning Post.
The outbreak is the biggest reported in China since a cluster of cases linked to a market in Beijing in June.
The Kashgar authorities started a mass testing programme after the girl was found to be infected during a routine ...