Wuhan tests over 7 million as fear of second wave of virus grows in China

WUHAN: Fearing the resurgence of the virus after reopening the city, China has conducted over 7 million tests in the past 12 days. This concludes the government’s campaign to recheck the entire population after several new infections have arisen in the past few days.  The Chinese Government has conducted nucleic acid tests of over 6.68 million people and over 206 new asymptomatic cases have been reported. The skepticism around the second wave in China began when a cluster of new cases were reported from the northeast region of the country.

The country, which has been successful in subduing the pandemic to a certain degree after it was first discovered there, has rapidly increased testing in its previous epicentre, Wuhan. The city has offered tests to over 1.1 million people on May 23 itself.

Xi Ping, Chinese President, has stressed that it is imperative to contain the virus and “not ruin the hard-won achievement” of containing it in the first place.