Covid-19: China to test all 11 million residents of Wuhan as cases increase after easing lockdown
Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media has reported.
Officials had been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer tests on all residents in the city of 11 million people, according to an official notice carried by news outlets.Quick guide.
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“Each district should make plans and arrangements to conduct nucleic acid tests on the entire population in its jurisdiction within a 10-day time limit,” the notice said, although it was unclear when testing would begin.
The planned checks come after Wuhan reported the first cluster of new Covid-19 infections since the city reopened after a 76-day lockdown on 8 April.
Six cases were reported on Sunday and Monday from a residential compound in Dongxihu district. But an official from the district epidemic prevention and control commanding office said they had “not yet received news about this notice”.
