China ‘to test all 11m Wuhan residents’ amid fears of coronavirus comeback

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Authorities in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic first broke out are planning to test all 11 million residents in the next 10 days&comma; local media have reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No official announcement has been made&comma; but district officials in Wuhan confirmed receiving orders from the city’s coronavirus taskforce&comma; the reports said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The order came after the discovery last weekend of a cluster of six infected people at a residential compound in the city&comma; the first new cases in more than a month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China has moved quickly to snuff out new outbreaks wherever they pop up&comma; even as it relaxes restrictions on the movement of people and reopens public attractions to limited numbers of visitors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jilin province&comma; which borders North Korea&comma; has suspended all public transport and imposed other restrictions as it battles a fresh outbreak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In neighbouring Heilongjiang province&comma; which dealt with its own outbreak recently&comma; the city of Harbin is quarantining anyone coming from Jilin for 14 days and banning them from hotels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A major state-owned news website&comma; Jiemian&comma; said it had obtained an implementation plan for the city’s Wuchang district that said all residents should be tested by May 20&comma; or in about a week’s time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wuhan was the area hit hardest by coronavirus in China&period; Of the 4&comma;633 reported deaths nationwide&comma; 4&comma;512 were in Hubei province&comma; including 3&comma;869 in Wuhan&comma; the provincial capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China imposed a lengthy lockdown on most of Hubei in late January to stem the spread of the virus&period; People were forbidden from entering or leaving the province&comma; public transport was suspended and residents were mostly restricted to their homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lockdown was lifted outside Wuhan after two months&comma; and in Wuhan itself on April 8&comma; after two and a half months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new cases appear to have shocked city officials into action&period; They dismissed the Communist Party secretary of the neighbourhood where the cluster was found for poor management of the residential community&comma; the official Xinhua News Agency said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The order said the testing should focus on the elderly&comma; densely populated areas and those with mobile populations&comma; 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