China's Wuhan conducts 1,146,156 COVID-19 tests on May 23

Saudi Press Agency

Sunday 1441/10/1 - 2020/05/24

BEIJING, May 24, 2020, SPA -- The city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 1,146,156 nucleic acid tests on May 23, compared with 1,470,950 tests a day earlier, Reuters quoted the local health authority as saying today.

Wuhan began a campaign on May 14 to look for asymptomatic carriers - infected people who show no outward sign of illness - after confirming on May 9-10 its first cluster of COVID-19 infections since the city's release from a virtual lockdown on April 8.

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