BEIJING, Aug 8 (Bloomberg): Wuhan completed mass Covid-19 testing of local residents after new local cases were reported in the original epicenter of the pandemic.
The local government has completed testing on 11.3 million people, covering most of the city’s population except for college students on summer break and children under the age of 6 years, according to a virus control briefing held by Wuhan government on Sunday.
Nine positive cases were found from the testing and the infected people have been hospitalised, officials said.
The city government announced the citywide testing on Tuesday after three local confirmed infections were reported Monday.
The latest data from the government showed that Wuhan added another six cases on Aug 7.
The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 81 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday, reports Xinhua.
Of the locally transmitted cases, 38 were reported in Jiangsu, 24 in Henan, seven in Yunnan, six each in Hubei and Hunan, according to the commission.
Also reported were 15 new imported cases, of which six were reported in Shanghai, four in Yunnan, three in Guangdong and two in Sichuan.
Three suspected cases arriving from outside the mainland were newly reported in Shanghai on Saturday.
No deaths related to Covid-19 were newly reported, the commission added.
By the end of Saturday, a total of 7,643 imported cases had been reported on the mainland.
Among them, 6,929 had been discharged from hospitals following recovery, and 714 remained hospitalized. No deaths had been reported among the imported cases.
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