Chinese authorities will go door-to-door to check Wuhan’s nine million residents for coronavirus as they “battle to annihilate it”.
after contracting coronavirus, as Chinese police prepared to begin house-to-house checks of all nine million people living in the city.
Initial reports of Dr Li’s death prompted outrage on social media. His hospital then contradicted those statements by saying that he was “in a critical condition and we are trying our best to rescue him”, only for his death to be confirmed hours later.A patient has her temperature checked at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan on Monday, February 17, 2020. Picture: AFPAll residents of Wujan have been ordered to stay at home.
“No household shall be left unchecked, and not a single person will be left behind,” Wang Zhonglin, 57, who was appointed last week as the city’s highest official dealing with the public health crisis.
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