Older people and densely populated communities will be prioritised after six people tested positive over the weekend.
All Wuhan residents will be tested for COVID-19 after a new outbreak occurred in the city where the pandemic started, local authorities said.cases over the weekend in the central Chinese city - the first in the whole of Hubei province for 35 days.authorities to announce nucleic acid testing of all its residents will happen over 10 days, according to an emergency notice circulated by state-run media outlet The Paper.
Nucleic testing detects the virus' genetic code and can be more effective at picking up the virus, especially in the early stages, than the more easily carried out immune response tests.Older people, densely populated communities and areas which are visited by a lot of people will be prioritised, the notice said.
"We must profoundly realise that decisive achievements do not mean decisive victory," Wang Zhonglin, a member of Hubei Province's standing committee, told the Changjiang Daily.
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