On Tuesday, authorities in Wuhan said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year, Report informs, citing foreign media.
The city of 11 million is "swiftly launching comprehensive nucleic acid testing of all residents," senior Wuhan official Li Tao said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Authorities announced on Monday that seven locally transmitted infections had been found among migrant workers in the city, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after it squashed an initial outbreak with an unprecedented lockdown in early 2020.
China has confined the residents of entire cities to their homes, cut domestic transport links, and rolled out mass testing in recent days as it battles its largest coronavirus outbreak in months.