China’s Wuhan conducted 113,609 Covid19 tests on May 15, says officials | Malay Mail

BEIJING, May 16 —The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 113,609 nucleic acid tests on May 15, the local health authority said today. Wuhan has launched a city-wide testing campaign after confirming last weekend its first cluster of Covid-19...

Saturday, 16 May 2020 08:35 PM MYT

Wuhan has launched a city-wide testing campaign after confirming last weekend its first cluster of Covid-19 infections. — AFP pic BEIJING, May 16 —The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 113,609 nucleic acid tests on May 15, the local health authority said today.

Wuhan has launched a city-wide testing campaign after confirming last weekend its first cluster of Covid-19 infections since its release from a virtual lockdown on April 8 to contain the spread of the pathogen. The number of tests administered on May 15 in the city of 11 million residents was more than 50% higher than the 72,791 tests conducted a day earlier, and was also the highest since the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission started publishing the data on Feb. 21. — Reuters

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