Operation completed in Wuhan.
The Chinese city authorities announced on Sunday the end of the vast Covid-19 screening campaign, organized after a resurgence in the number of cases, more than a year after the coronavirus appeared there.
Tests of more than 11 million people since Tuesday essentially allow "full coverage" of everyone in the city except children under six and students on vacation abroad, he said. Li Tao, a senior official from Wuhan, said at a press conference, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
A Delta Strain Outbreak
Three new cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed Monday, August 2 in the metropolis of 11 million inhabitants, caught up in turn by an outbreak of the Delta strain that appeared last month in the east of the country. The previous cases of Covid recorded in the city dated back to May 2020. In total, seven workers from other provinces have tested positive for Covid-19, authorities announced on Monday. Four of them, however, do not show symptoms of the disease.
China, which virtually eradicated the epidemic in the spring of 2020, has been facing the most widespread resurgence of the virus since last year for a few weeks.
With at least 300 new infections confirmed in total in July across the country, however, this surge in contamination remains very limited compared to figures recorded in other countries.
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