As of 20:00 on August 13th, 2003 people who stayed in Xinjiang for the whole Xinjiang had an epidemic.

Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily (Reporter Su Luping reported) On August 13, the Press Office of the People's Government of the Autonomous Region held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control.At the meeting, Yan Naimin, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Group of the Cultural Traveler Department of the Autonomous Region, notified the service guarantee of the tourist department of the autonomous region to ensure the situation of detention tourists.

Since the occurrence of the epidemic, the cultural and tourism departments at all levels of the autonomous region are uniformly deployed in accordance with the autonomous region's epidemic prevention and control headquarters. While strictly implementing the prevention and control measures of the epidemic, we should do a good job of supporting tourist service guarantee.As of 20:00 on August 13th, from the situation of retention tourists reported in states and cities, 2003 tourists abormed to foreign countries due to epidemic reasons.It is mainly distributed in Yili Prefecture, Turpan, Kashgar, Urumqi, Bozhou and other places.

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