The government plans to airlift more South Korean workers next week from Iraq where an outbreak has been growing. Health authorities have confirmed 34 cases among some 100 construction workers who returned from a chartered flight earlier this week. There are currently 50 testing sites in regional Victoria. — China reported a domestic transmission of the coronavirus in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, which has seen little impact from the pandemic. A regional Communist Party newspaper said party officials had called for the strictest measures to be used to control any outbreak.

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2020 02:48 UTC