Wuhan to test all citizens in 10 days
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central Chinese city of Wuhan where the coronavirus first emerged late last year will test all its citizens for the virus after six new cases were reported over the weekend for the first time since early April.
The city’s government issued a directive late on Monday, directing local health authorities to carry out nucleic acid test for its 11 million residents over the next 10 days.
The province of Hubei and its capital Wuhan have reported over 68,000 (50,339 in Wuhan) of the nearly 83,000 Covid-19 cases in China. The virus has killed 3,869 in the city, state media outlet, The Paper, reported.
As many as 4,633 people have died in China of Covid-19.
The city reported its first cluster infection in a community for the first time since the strict lockdown implemented on January 23 was lifted on April 8.
The housing complex where the cluster case was discovered had earlier reported a total of 20 confirmed Covid-19 cases, and authorities said the new cluster could be linked to “past community infection.”
According to the Sixth Tone news website, the government official in charge of the area in Dongxihu district where the six cases were detected was sacked on Monday for “ineffective lockdown and control management.”
Chinese health authorities on Tuesday called for vigilance to be maintained against the novel coronavirus as new clusters emerge, even though the peak of the epidemic has passed in the country where it first appeared.