Chinese health officials in the city at the center of the initial coronavirus outbreak say they tested nearly seven million people in 12 days in order to quash fears of a second wave.
Chinese health officials in the city at the center of the initial coronavirus outbreak say they tested nearly 7 million people in 12 days to quash fears of a second wave.
Speaking at annual legislative meetings in Beijing Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping encouraged the aggressive testing effort to"not ruin the hard-won achievement" of containing the virus and reopening the country's economy. than 1 million people across the country during the entire month of March, according to the COVID Tracking Project.Tuesday that testing had reached 90 percent of the entire city and laboratories in Wuhan were processing as many as 1.47 million tests by Friday. By comparison, the state of New York - with a population of about 20 million - has only tested 1.7 million people since March 4.
The Trump administration vowed in early April that 5 million tests would be available to Americans each day, but later backtracked on that number which was reduced to 2 million. But labs and data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project revealed the U.S. averaged at most 220,000 tests each day by the last week of April.
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