Xinjiang's Urumqi downgrades 5 districts to low-risk areas for COVID-19
A worker collects medical wastes in Urumqi on August 13, 2020.
Authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region announced on Friday that they will downgrade five districts in the regional capital of Urumqi to low-risk areas for COVID-19 starting Saturday.
The Tianshan and Saybag districts are to be downgraded from high-risk regions to low-risk ones while three others are to be lowered from medium risk to low risk, said the regional COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters.
The downgrading comes around 40 days after the five districts were listed as high- or medium-risk regions for COVID-19.
Xinjiang reported no new confirmed COVID-19 cases between Aug. 16 and 27, the regional health commission said in its daily report on Friday.
By Thursday, Xinjiang had 93 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 35 asymptomatic cases, all in Urumqi, and 1,984 people were still under medical observation.
From July 15 to Thursday, a total of 733 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospital after recovery in the region, and 203 asymptomatic cases were released from medical observation.
