In Wuhan, nine million people were tested for coronavirus in 10 days. Here’s how they did it.
HONG KONG—The central Chinese city of Wuhan said early Monday that it had collected coronavirus swab tests from more than nine million of its 11 million people over the past 10 days, an ambitious response to the re-emergence of a handful of fresh cases earlier this month at the initial center of the pandemic.
Most of those nine million samples have already been processed, according to a daily record of nucleic acid tests by Wuhan health authorities. In total, they said, the mass testing identified 180 asymptomatic carriers...
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