BEIJING — Six new Covid-19 cases, all of whom were local transmissions, have surfaced in Wuhan barely two weeks after the city in central China declared that the last of its patients had been
Local health authorities on Tuesday ordered the entire city of 11 million to undergo nucleic acid testing over a 10-day period in a bid to arrest the spread of the coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, and, more importantly, prevent a second wave of infections just a month after it lifted a lockdown.
But, under China’s tabulation system, patients who do not show symptoms but who tested positive in the nucleic acid test are not added to the official tally. But a top scientist from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Wu Zunyou, has said testing the entire population was “unnecessary” and that mass testing should be carried out only on critical groups that have a higher exposure to the virus.
“I do not see an easy, low-cost solution to stopping transmission short of a mass vaccine program which too may also need to be repeated every several years to maintain immunity,” he added.
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