More than a month after the deconfinement, the city of Wuhan sees the specter of a second wave looming. In the birthplace of the coronavirus, new cases raise fears of a resumption of the contagion, and the authorities plan to initiate the screening of the whole population.
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Monday, an entire neighborhood was placed in quarantine, more than 5,000 people in total isolation, after the discovery of five new infections. An octogenarian infected in March, who thought he was cured, relapsed and contaminated his wife and three other people. These cascading contaminations worry the Chinese authorities, which very gradually lift the containment measures.
The screening campaign will last ten days
In the mainland, a large systematic screening campaign will therefore be launched, and several million people in 13 districts will be tested. This campaign will last ten days, and the screening will be done with nucleic acid, specifies a circular from the town hall published on the Shanghai media site The Paper .
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Wuhan, where the epidemic started late last year, was quarantined on January 23. Thanks to a drastic drop in contamination, this measure was lifted on April 8. The city suffered the brunt of the Covid-19 epidemic in China, with 3,869 dead of the 4,633 registered in the country.