{"id":256877,"date":"2020-06-02T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=256877"},"modified":"2020-06-02T22:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:46:02","slug":"wuhan-tests-nearly-10m-citizens-in-10-days-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/02\/wuhan-tests-nearly-10m-citizens-in-10-days-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan tests nearly 10M citizens in 10 days: China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256216\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-256216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/person-holding-test-tube-and-syringe-4149042-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mass testing began after a cluster of six new cases was reported on May 9. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nearly 10 million residents of Wuhan city in central China were tested for coronavirus in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWuhan has tested 9.89 million people during its 10-day citywide nucleic test campaign, found 300 asymptomatic carriers, and no confirmed cases,\u201d a municipality official said, according to daily Global Times.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, last December. Over 11 million people live in the city, known for its high-tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Mass testing began after a cluster of six new cases was reported on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWuhan spent approximately 900 million yuan (USD126.58 million) on its city-wide nucleic test campaign, and the expense will be shouldered by the Wuhan government,\u201d said Hu Yabo, executive deputy mayor of Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the outbreak, Wuhan reported over 50,000 cases of the deadly infection.<\/p>\n<p>China has reported 83,022 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 4,634 deaths, most of which were recorded in Hubei province.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Health Commission on Tuesday confirmed five new infections, all imported.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 Nearly 10 million residents of Wuhan city in central China were tested for coronavirus in 10 days. \u201cWuhan has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":256216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256879,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256877\/revisions\/256879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}