The coronavirus epidemic in China appears to have started from the cramped prison system, possibly at internment facilities in Xinjiang, according to media reports and social media posts.China's Ministry of Justice officials on Friday said that more than 500 prisoners in five prisons in three provinces had contracted the virus which has so far sickened almost 80,000 people and killed more than 2,000 people, mostly in China.Some 56 million people in central Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, have been placed under unprecedented lockdown.David Brennan, a New York-based journalist tweeted, "Uighur groups have warned that China's 're-education' camps could become coronavirus hotspots. Xinjiang officials dismissed the concerns but @JewherIlham told me that China is unlikely to be transparent about the situation."A human rights activist, Nicola Macbean, tweeted, "Unsurprisingly #COVID2019 now confirmed in Chinese prisons. With overcrowding, poor nutrition ..
