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June 02, 2020 Wu left the coronavirus behind, with no new cases of contagion over nearly 10 million tests. In the Chinese metropolis of Hubei, which was the first outbreak of the pandemic, a campaign of carpet tests on nucleic acid has just ended, with no confirmed case emerging on 9.89 million swabs performed from 14 May to 1 June. "There were no cases of positivity, only a total of 300 asymptomatic patients were discovered, while no cases of asymptomatic people who infected others were found," read a note from the city municipal health commission.

900 million yuan campaign 
The test campaign for all citizens who had not previously been subjected to the swab had been decided after six new infections were recorded in May, about a month after the end of 76 lockdown days. Last Sunday, for the first time, there were no cases of asymptomatic infection in the city on over sixty thousand tests conducted. Wuhan spent around 900 million yuan (113.38 million euros) on this campaign, a cost that the city government will have to bear in its entirety, a local official told the Global Times.

Before the campaign, more than three million tests
had been conducted Before this campaign, more than three million tests had been conducted. At the beginning there was talk of carrying them out to all citizens, but the authorities then recommended not to carry them out on children under the age of six and priority was given to those residential communities in which outbreaks had previously occurred, as well as old and densely populated buildings.

However, the seventh victim among the doctors of the Central Hospital
is also recorded In Wuhan, however, there is also the seventh victim among the doctors of the Central Hospital: Hu Weifeng, 43, among the first to recognize and treat the new coronavirus, died after four months of intensive care and dialysis. Last month, the BBC recalls, he was about to be discharged but then his conditions worsened. A photo that portrays him in the hospital with dark skin due to the disease and the suffering face is making the rounds of social networks. Hu was among the Central Hospital doctors who had contracted the virus by treating patients at the end of December and who had been under pressure to keep the news of the infection out. It is the sixth of his colleagues to die for Covid-19; in the same healthcare facility over 230 doctors and nurses fell ill.