{"id":21085,"date":"2020-07-28T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/covid-19-outbreak-in-xinjiang-prompts-fears-of-spread-inside-chinas-camps"},"modified":"2020-07-28T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:32:48","slug":"covid-19-outbreak-in-xinjiang-prompts-fears-of-spread-inside-chinas-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21085","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 outbreak in Xinjiang prompts fears of spread inside China&#8217;s camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infections in the province grow daily, with concerns that any cases inside Uighur internment camps may never be made public<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the Xinjiang region has sparked fears the outbreak could reach the secretive internment camps where China is believed to have detained more than a million Muslim minority people.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Chinese health authorities reported 68 new cases of Covid-19, including 57 in the far western region of Xinjiang, bringing the area\u2019s reported total to 235. After a reported five-month streak of no infections in Xinjiang, the outbreak that began almost two weeks ago has appeared to take hold in the capital city of Urumqi, and spread to Kashgar about 300km away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/covid-19-outbreak-in-xinjiang-prompts-fears-of-spread-inside-chinas-camps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections in the province grow daily, with concerns that any cases inside Uighur internment camps may never be made publicCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the Xinjiang region has sparked f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions\/21086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}