Wuhan authorities have completed a round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testing in five days to prevent the latest COVID-19 resurgence.
In Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, where the pandemic originated in 2019, has completed a round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testing in five days to prevent the latest COVID-19 resurgence, officials said. More than 11.28 million residents have been tested for the novel coronavirus during citywide testing that began on August 3, Li Tao, deputy secretary general of the Wuhan municipal government, told a press conference on Sunday.
Li was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency that it meant “basically full coverage” of all residents in Wuhan, except children under the age of six and university students on summer vacation. Mass testing was launched on 2 August after new locally transmitted infections emerged among several migrant workers.
As of August 7, Wuhan had recorded 37 locally transmitted confirmed cases and 41 asymptomatic carriers in the latest outbreak.
Peng Haupeng, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission, said mass testing of residential compounds under closed management found nine infections, while other cases were found in quarantined close contacts.
Last year, Wuhan completed an extensive nucleic acid testing campaign, during which it tested nearly 10 million residents in 19 days
The city had not reported any locally transmitted COVID-19 infections for over a year until this latest outbreak.
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