Covid-19: Wuhan starts three-day door-to-door screening campaign


Inspectors visiting a home for a household survey at the Zhongda community in the Jianghan district of Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 17, 2020. - China Daily/ANN

WUHAN (China Daily/ANN): Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in Hubei province, launched a three-day campaign on Monday (Feb 17)to screen people in order to leave no one unattended and curb the spread of the contagion.

The screening work came after the city issued a public notice on Friday that required all residential communities to be locked down and reduce people's movement to limit transmission of the disease.

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