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China’s Wuhan says conducted 856,128 COVID-19 tests on Tuesday – Metro US

China’s Wuhan says conducted 856,128 COVID-19 tests on Tuesday

Residents wearing face masks line up for nucleic acid testings
Residents wearing face masks line up for nucleic acid testings at a residential compound in Wuhan

BEIJING (Reuters) – The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, conducted 856,128 tests for the disease on Tuesday, the local health authority said on Wednesday, compared with 467,847 a day earlier.

Wuhan kicked off a campaign on May 14 to look for asymptomatic carriers – infected people who show no outward sign of illness – after confirming on May 9-10 its first cluster of COVID-19 infections since the city’s lockdown was lifted on April 8.

(Reporting by Ryan Woo; editing by John Stonestreet)