Wuhan plans to test millions after a small cluster of infections emerged

Virus

This was reported by Reuters overnight, noting that every district in the city of Wuhan has been told to submit a detailed testing plan for their respective area by today, citing an internal document and two sources familiar with the situation.

The city-wide testing will be conducted over a period of ten days via nucleic acid tests. The document also reveals that older and densely populated residential compounds and those with a concentration of migrant populations should be the focus of testing.

This comes after Wuhan reported its first new cluster since lockdown measures were lifted on 8 April. For some context, there were five new cases were reported over the weekend that came from the same residential compound.