Authorities in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus emerged launched an ambitious campaign on Wednesday.The campaign...
Authorities in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus emerged launched an ambitious campaign on Wednesday.
“To better make use of nucleic acid tests as a monitoring tool and in accordance of the state cabinet’s requirements to expand testing. Reuters, citing an internal document to district officials, reported on Monday that the city planned to conduct the campaign of city-wide nucleic acid tests over 10 days.
Asymptomatic cases, or people who have tested positive but show no clinical symptoms such as a fever, are capable of spreading the virus to others. China does not disclose estimates of the number of such cases. The Wuhan government said on April 23 that the city had 53 laboratories to process tests and 211 locations where nucleic acid tests can be done.
An official at the city government’s Mayor’s Hotline confirmed the city’s plan to test all residents but told Reuters there has been no notice by the city health authority about officially starting the tests.Since the Wuhan’s lockdown was lifted, the city has conducted an average of 47,000 tests a day and more than 1.5 million tests in total, according to Reuters calculations based on city health authority daily reports.
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