Wuhan To Test 11 Million People In Just 10 Days After Detecting New COVID-19 Cases
Wuhan officials have planned to conduct COVID-19 tests on 11 million of its people.
When we hear Wuhan, all we can think of is the havoc that this city has unleashed on our world, with COVID-19. Now while it is all up and running the entire world remains shut down.
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However, it looks like it isn¡¯t all clear for them just yet, as a cluster of new COVID-19 cases emerged in the Dongxihu District of Wuhan, after the city re-opened post a 76-day lockdown.
Reported first by AFP, To prevent it from not spreading as it did in the beginning, Wuhan officials have planned to conduct COVID-19 tests on 11 million of its people. This is according to an official notice that was being shared by state news outlets in China.
Officials plan to administer nucleic acid tests on residents of Wuhan. The notice stated that each district will have to make their arrangements to conduct these tests. They¡¯ve also specified that the test must be done in a 10-day period. The notice, however, didn¡¯t clearly reveal when it was to commence testing.
While it is surely an unbelievable feat to test 11 million people in a 10-day time period, Chief Epidemiologist of Chinese Centre For Disease Control, Wu Zunyou, stated that it wasn¡¯t necessary for everyone to get tested.
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He specified the fact that neighbourhoods and localities with no cases don¡¯t really need to be screened.
With over 82,926 cases reported till date, China has managed to tame the COVID-19 outbreak, but its worries are far from over. Last month, it saw a cluster of cases in northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang which share the border with Russia.
Authorities noticed a rise in Chinese people with COVID-19 crossing the border and coming back to their homeland. China¡¯s National Health Commission has reported 108 new infections on April 12. As of now, Wuhan alone has reported over 3,869 deaths since the outbreak commenced in January.
