KASHI: The factory that’s been closely linked to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections in Shufu county of Kashi in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is a clothing factory, and its establishment has helped solve employment difficulties for residents, officials said, refuting Western media slander that it is a “forced labor camp.”

Xinjiang officials said at a press conference on Wednesday that the factory was set up jointly by the local government and villages, and it mainly produces sportswear and other casual clothes.

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