COVID-19: Wuhan's 11 Million Residents To Get Tested After Fresh Cases Emerge

Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, in China, have said that there will be a mass test conducted in the city after new cases arose after weeks of recording no case, the state media reports. 

A notice distributed by news agencies stated that officials in the city had been directed to submit, by Tuesday, their strategies on how to administer nucleic acid tests on all 11 million residents in the city.

The notice stated, “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.”

Between Sunday and Monday, Wuhan had recorded six fresh cases from the Dongxihu District.

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Speaking on the distributed notice, an official who works at the Dongxihu District epidemic prevention and control office said that they were yet to receive any news about the notice.

Chinese authorities have been very wary about a second wave of infection ever since it started to lift its restrictions in parts of the country, as it had, so far, had the virus under control.

The belief held by medical experts states that the virus moved from animals to humans at a wet market.

Wuhan has had a total of 3,869 fatalities since the disease broke out from the city late December last year, making it the city with the most deaths in China.