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China To Test City Of 9M For COVID-19 In 5 Days; One-Third Done In Two Days

Beijing: China is carrying out mass testing of the port city of Qingdao after a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating COVID-19 patients arriving from abroad came to light.

Earlier in May, they had tested the entire city of Wuhan in ten days, a place with 11 million people.

China is believed to have largely brought the virus under control.

Qingdao’s Municipal Health Commission posted on social media platform that six new cases and six asymptomatic cases had been discovered linked to one hospital. Recently, millions travelled across the country to celebrate China’s Golden Week holiday.

Now, the government is testing the whole city of 9.4 million with hundreds of testing centres and thousands of staff involved.

“As of 8 am… our city has taken 3.08 million samples for nucleic testing, with 1.11 million results received,” Qingdao’s health commission said in a statement on Tuesday.

 

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