China to test Wuhan residents for COVID to prevent new outbreak

China’s central city of Wuhan will test all residents as it screens them for coronavirus infections, city government official Li Tao told a news briefing on August 3, Report informs referring to Reuters.

The city of 11 million is swiftly launching comprehensive nucleic acid testing of all residents, he noted.

Wuhan officials announced on August 2 that seven locally transmitted infections had been found among migrant workers in the city, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after it squashed an initial outbreak with an unprecedented lockdown in early 2020.