- Sprawling Xinjiang is the latest Chinese region to be hit with sweeping COVID-19 travel restrictions, as China further ratchets up control measures ahead of a key Communist Party congress later this month.
- As is often the case with China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy, the measures seemed out of proportion to the number of cases detected.
- Officials are desperate not to be called out for new outbreaks in their regions and Xinjiang has been under special scrutiny over the government’s establishment of a series of prison-like re-education centers in which Muslim minorities have been taught to renounce their religion and allegedly subjected to a range of human rights abuses.
China’s vast Xinjiang hit with COVID-19 travel restrictions
