A coronavirus test in the Chinese city is fast, cheap and easy
A woman receives a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 on a street near a hospital after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, China, on April 13 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ALY SONG
A government official escorted me to the test site, a table outside the entrance of a shuttered hotel. A single medical worker sat there, dressed in a zipped-up hazmat suit and goggles. The term “nucleic acid test” has become a familiar one in the city of 11-million people, where many companies are asking workers to present test results before they can return to work, though it is not mandatory.
“If you’re an enterprise with 500 employees and you want to start working again, you test everybody.”
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