China battles new outbreak in far west Xinjiang

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The number of confirmed cases in a new Covid-19 outbreak in China’s far west has risen to 17.

The National Health Commission said that 16 more cases were identified in the previous 24 hours in the Xinjiang region, on top of a first case, AP reported.

The outbreak in the city of Urumqi is the latest to pop up since China largely contained the domestic spread of the virus in March. The largest was a recent outbreak in Beijing that infected more than 330 people.

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