China prepares to test all of Wuhan’s 11 million residents for coronavirus in just 10 days as it reports ZERO - The Sun

FEARS of a second coronavirus wave smashing China will see each of Wuhan's 11 million residents tested in just 10 days despite no new domestic cases.

A major worry is asymptomatic cases, where people show no clinical signs of infection but spread the bug, authorities admit.

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Chinese nurses take a selfie on International Nurses Day at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, May 12Credit: EPA

China’s National Health Commission reported 17 new cases on Monday, five of them in Wuhan where the killer bug first emerged before rampaging countries across the world.

Seven of the new cases were imported, says The Guardian.

Worryingly, over the weekend Wuhan, capital of Hubei, reported its first cluster of infections since a lockdown on the city was lifted a month ago.

As a result, authorities declared they would hold mass testing of all citizens over a period of ten days, reports Reuters.

This will be in the form of city-wide nucleic acid testing, used to identify small amounts of DNA or RNA in a sample.

Every district was ordered to submit a detailed testing plan to Wuhan officials by Tuesday.

All of the latest cases in Wuhan were previously classified as asymptomatic - people who test positive for the virus and are capable of infecting others but do not show clinical signs.

We must resolutely contain the risk of a rebound.

Wuhan official

On average, the city has conducted about 47,000 nucleic acid tests each day since the lockdown was lifted on April 8.

Although China reported zero new domestic coronavirus infections today, nervous authorities remain concerned about a sudden wider resurgence of the killer bug, which has so far taken the lives of about 290,000 people worldwide, says Worldometers.

Wuhan's health bosses said: “We must resolutely contain the risk of a rebound."

There have been concerns about further peaks for some weeks, which late last month resulted in re-imposed lockdown measures on public sports facilities.

The Chinese government, concerned over a spike in imported cases, also imposed a 14-day quarantine at designated hotels for anyone arriving in Beijing.

New confirmed cases reported in China since April have been low compared with the thousands every day in February, thanks to a nationwide regime of screening, testing and quarantine.

CLUSTERS

Yet new clusters have emerged, resulting in the northeastern city of Shulan being placed under lockdown on Sunday.

Today Chinese health authorities called for vigilance to be maintained, even though the peak of the epidemic has passed in the country.

In the past two weeks, new cases have been reported in seven provinces, including Hubei, the original epicentre of the deadly outbreak late last year.

As of Monday, mainland China had 115 confirmed cases, while 5,470 people were under medical observation for signs of infection.

However, US President Donald Trump has queried China's figures and suggested it would be punished for the outbreak.

His administration is considering retaliatory measures against it over the Covid-19 outbreak.

Chinese authorities reported on Sunday what could be the beginning of a new wave of coronavirus cases in northeast China, with one city in Jilin province being reclassified as high-risk.

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Eleven new cases in Shulan were confirmed on May 9, all of them members of one woman's relatives or people who came into contact with her or family members.

Shulan has increased virus-control measures including a lockdown of residential compounds, a ban on non-essential transportation and school closures, the Jilin government said.

Beijing said last Friday that cinemas, museums and other venues would gradually be reopened, though restrictions including mandatory reservations and a limit on numbers of visitors would be in place.

Thumbs-up: kids are happy to have returned to classrooms in ChinaCredit: Getty Images - Getty

But temperatures are still being taken in public, as fears mount over a looming second peakCredit: AFP or licensors

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