Chinese authorities are doing mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reaches the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.
Chinese authorities are doing mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.Three new local cases have been detected in the city of WuhanWuhan, a provincial capital of 11 million people in central China, is the latest city to undergo city-wide testing.
The current outbreaks, while still in the hundreds of cases in total, have spread much more widely than previous ones.Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from August 3 with a look back at our blog. Most of the local cases are still in Jiangsu province, where an outbreak started at the airport in Nanjing, the provincial capital, and has spread to the city of Yangzhou, 105km away.
Five other provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai reported new local cases in the single digits.
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