Posted on 05/12/2020 3:10:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report.
The plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done within 10 days.
It comes after Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, recorded six new cases over the weekend.
For a while it seemed like life was getting back to normal as schools re-opened, businesses slowly emerged and public transport resumed operations. But the emergence of a cluster of cases - all from the same residential compound - has now threatened the move back to normalcy.
However several senior health officials quoted by the Global Times newspaper indicated that testing the entire city would be unfeasible and costly.
When a new domestic infection appeared in the city three days ago you could feel the concern over 1,000km away in Beijing.
Then five others were infected by the 89-year old man previously declared "asymptomatic", and the manager of their housing complex was removed. However, sacking local officials in this way might also encourage a tendency to hide future cases.
China's most powerful seven people, in the Politburo Standing Committee, met last week to discuss improving the country's early warning system for outbreaks like this.
They could start by easing the "no mistakes at all costs" approach to governing, in which those who reveal the bad news can end up being punished.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Better test the bats and monkeys, too.
So the reported 5 million people that cut out of Wuhan are all now back, well less the 250k+ that are dead. Nothing can be believed that is coming out of the $hit hole. Even if the ChiComs have 11 million tests available what’s the point when the fail rate of the crap they produce is so high?
Sounds like China is reading the Democrat playbook.
“””Namely,nobody will be safe until everybody is tested.”””
Is it just a coincidence that Pres. Trump emphasized testing in yesterday’s press conference?
Right on cue. Get the fear of a second wave going by planting stories in the chicom loving poodle press. The BBC exhibit A
Don’t Chinese tests have a very high number of false positives?
Gee I hope they don’t use Chinese test kits. The ones with the predetermined negative test results
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