BEIJING: At least one community in the Chinese city of Wuhan was to begin testing residents for the new coronavirus Thursday after officials were given 10 days to test everyone in the city where the pandemic began, Chinese media reports said.
About 1,000 residents of a compound in Qiaokou district were to be tested in groups, according to a website of Hubei TV, the official provincial broadcaster.
No official announcement has been made, but district officials have confirmed receiving mass testing orders from the city’s coronavirus task force, the reports said.
It remained unclear if everyone in the city of 11 million people would actually be tested and how such a monumental campaign would happen.