13 cases, 10 million tests: China swabs city after coronavirus outbreak
A health worker takes a swab from a resident to be tested for the Covid-19 as part of a mass testing programme following a new outbreak in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province on October 14, 2020.
The city has now confirmed 13 cases, Luan told a regular briefing Thursday, adding that health workers were on track to complete testing 9.4 million residents and another 1.5 million visitors by Friday -- just five days after the programme was launched.
Almost 10 million people in the Chinese city of Qingdao have now been screened for the coronavirus, officials said Thursday, as authorities rushed to quash an outbreak through an ambitious programme of mass testing.
Deputy mayor Luan Xin said more than 9.9 million samples had been collected and 7.6 million results returned, adding that no new cases had been found.
