China News Service, October 14 According to a report from the Qingdao Municipal Health Commission, as of 20:30 on October 13, Qingdao has sampled 5,603,804 samples for nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus.

People line up at community checkpoints for nucleic acid testing.

Photo by Hu Yaojie

  As of 20:30 on October 13th, 532 close contacts have been investigated in the city. All of them have implemented centralized isolation and observation and completed two rounds of nucleic acid testing. Except for the first round of testing, 9 people have positive nucleic acid test results and have been released in time. All are negative; 217 close contacts of close contacts have been investigated, all of which have been quarantined and observed and completed two rounds of nucleic acid testing, and the results are all negative.

There were 859 general contacts, all of whom completed the nucleic acid test, and the results were all negative; 204,301 staff of medical institutions, inpatients and escorts had completed the nucleic acid test sampling, and the results were 19,720, all negative; 5,397,152 people in the community had completed Nucleic acid testing and sampling have yielded 1,836,390 results, all of which are negative.