High school students in Wuhan take virus tests on April 30 before returning to school in early May
Wuhan will begin what it is calling "10 days of mass battle" to test all 11 million residents after the discovery of a new cluster of coronavirus cases.
Each of the city's districts will be required to create a testing plan by Tuesday.
A worker checks a passenger's body temperature on Tuesday after arriving in Wuhan, China. Earlier this week, authorities found at least six new cases of the coronavirus
Wuhan, where the world's first coronavirus cases were reported in late December, eased many restrictions in early April after a strict lockdown. But earlier this week, authorities found at least six new cases, the first to be confirmed in Hubei province in more than a month. Now the city will test all of its residents over a 10-day period.
Medical workers test novel coronavirus samples at a lab in Wuhan
All six new cases came from the same residential compound, and an 89-year-old man was infected. Five of them never had symptoms, Feng reported. The city has been trying to find asymptomatic carriers through a random testing initiative, which it started in April.
Hubei province had been locked down until late March, and Wuhan lifted many restrictions in April.
Wuhan health authorities said on April 29 that the city had conducted about 1 million tests to date. Now, it is asked to rapidly scale up and do more than 11 million in ten days. It's not yet clear what the plan is.
High school students in Wuhan take virus tests on April 30 before returning to school in early May
A worker checks a passenger's body temperature on Tuesday after arriving in Wuhan, China. Earlier this week, authorities found at least six new cases of the coronavirus
Medical workers test novel coronavirus samples at a lab in Wuhan
