‘Wuhan is now the safest city in China.’
Wuhan has recorded zero confirmed COVID-19 infections after officials screened nearly everyone in the city in less than three weeks to prevent a fresh outbreak, according to the government.
But authorities detected 300 asymptomatic patients, those who show no symptoms but can still spread the virus, an official said today.
Beijing’s top health official claimed that ‘Wuhan is now the safest city in China’ after the mass testing screened some 10million people for coronavirus. Wuhan, a city of 11million people, ordered its entire population to be tested for COVID-19 in a ’10-day great battle’ on May 14 after a new cluster of infection emerged.
By the end of the 10-day testing, Wuhan authorities said that they had collected swab samples from over nine million residents, of which 6.5 million people completed the screening.
Officials then set up 231 sample-collecting points across the city for citizens who missed the testing.
‘Wuhan is now the safest city in China.’
The city’s mass-screening came after authorities reported the first cluster of infections in Wuhan since a lockdown on the central Chinese city was lifted a month ago, stoking concerns of a wider resurgence of the disease.Wuhan officials recorded a total of seven confirmed cases between May 10 and May 11. All the patients lived in the same residential compound, Sanmin Residence, in the Chinese city.
Four patients had been discharged from local hospitals as of Monday, according to the Wuhan Health Commission. Three others – including one critical patient – are receiving medical treatment.
Wuhan has recorded a total of 50,340 confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 3,869 deaths. More than 46,000 patients have been discharged from hospitals.
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