China, from where the coronavirus emerged, has largely controlled the pandemic, in complete contrast with other parts of the world where the pandemic is still raging.
Beijing| After a minor outbreak of the coronavirus, China is now aiming to test more than nine million residents of the port city of Qingdao within five days, health officials informed o Monday, over the first mass testing in months.
China, from where the coronavirus emerged, has largely controlled the pandemic, in complete contrast with other parts of the world where the pandemic is still raging.
In Qingdao, a northeastern city of 9.4 million, six cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Sunday. Qingdao municipal health commission said that the cases originated in hospital.
The statement said that five districts will be tested “within three days” and the whole city “within five days”.
Other than having extensive, quick test capabilities, the health commission said over 140,000 employees of “medical institutions, newly admitted patients and personnel” have already been tested in Qingdao since the cases were confirmed.
Large areas of Beijing were subject to mass tests in June after the city of more than 20 million detected virus cases linked to a food market.
Since the virus emerged last year, China has managed to bounce back, closing the country down and hammering the world’s second-largest economy.
Although unproven, according to the report by AFP, vaccines have already been administered to hundreds of thousands of key workers and soldiers as China seizes the pandemic narrative to show off the country’s resilience and the Communist government’s ability to handle the crisis.
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