Wuhan Plans to Test
All 11 Million Residents After
6 New COVID-19 Cases Every single one of Wuhan's
11 million residents will be tested
by the end of the week. The massive initiative was
announced on Monday by district governments,
who will also fund the tremendous effort. Six new cases in the past two days
in Wuhan have prompted the effort.
They emerged after a 35-day streak of no new cases. China's government efforts are a stark
contrast to testing efforts in the U.S. The U.S. leads the world by far
with the most cases, 1,347,000,
and the most deaths, 80,000, due to the coronavirus. China state media reported
a top communist leader in Wuhan as stating that
residents of the region, "must not be careless or lax." Wang Zhonglin, Wuhan, via 'The Washington Post' Medical efforts in China sought
to reassure the public, stating, "we will not allow
scattered cases to develop into massive outbreaks."