A medical worker in protective suit collects a swab from a man to conduct free nucleic acid tests for residents in the residential compound, after new cases of Covid-19 were found in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, China July 19, 2020. - Reuters
BEIJING (Xinhua): A health official said Wednesday (Aug 5) that China has effectively contained the rapid expansion of Covid-19 cases in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Dalian of Liaoning Province in the northeast.
Experts have been working to isolate the virus and confirm its genome sequence, said Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, at a press conference.
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