The Chinese port city of Qingdao announced Monday it will test all 9 million residents. The Qingdao Municipal Health Commission announced that it has launched a citywide program to test all of its residents within five days after a cluster of coronavirus cases were found connected to a hospital.
The city initiated the mass testing program after health authorities said Sunday that three patients at the Qingdao Chest Hospital, a designated hospital for overseas COVID-19 patients, had been confirmed infected and an investigation of 377 close contacts produced nine other positive tests, including hospitalized patients, nurses and a family member of one of the infected, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
The Qingdao health authority said the five districts of Shinan, Shibei, Licang, Laoshan and Chengyang home to about 6 million people will be tested over the next three days with the whole city to be done in five.
