The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic of "Covid-19" has emerged, intensified a large campaign to detect people infected with the new Corona virus, but some of its residents, who gathered at the testing centers, expressed their concern yesterday that the same procedure may expose them to contract the disease. .
The health committee in Wuhan said the city had conducted 113,609 DNA tests the day before yesterday.
Citizens said, while gathering in open places in clinics and other facilities to undergo the examination, that safety has become one of the main topics of discussion on social media in the city, which is home to about 11 million people, but many said that they support the voluntary campaign.
The emergence of new cases, all of which were people who had not previously had symptoms of the disease, prompted the authorities in Wuhan to launch a campaign across the city in search of HIV carriers without symptoms, with the aim of controlling the level of risk from Covid-19.
Some experts say that the unprecedented scope of the tests indicates the level of concern in official circles, but others say that this procedure is very expensive and questioned its effectiveness.
At a test site in Jianghan District, central Wuhan, a volunteer roamed a long line of people waiting and sprayed antiseptics.
Many people applied social measures of separation, such as standing in the classroom with a meter separation from each other, and there was a sign reminding them of that, but many also did not implement them, and in some cases the volunteers did not insist on their commitment to them.
Elsewhere in the open air, where throat swabs were being tested, yellow and black posters were placed on the floor to prevent people from piling up.
But at the end of the long line, about 40 people crowded without any guidance from officials or volunteers.
Residents said that the authorities did not inform them of when they would receive the results of their examinations.