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China Medicine

China's Qingdao To Test 9 Million in Five Days (bbc.com) 107

The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days. From a report: The mass testing comes after the discovery of a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad. In May, China tested the entire city of Wuhan -- home to 11 million people and the epicentre of the global pandemic. The country has largely brought the virus under control. That is in stark contrast to other parts of the world, where there are still high case numbers and lockdown restrictions of varying severity. In a statement posted to Chinese social media site Weibo, Qingdao's Municipal Health Commission said six new cases and six asymptomatic cases had been discovered. All the cases were linked to the same hospital, said the state-run Global Times. The Chinese authorities now have a strategy of mass testing even when a new coronavirus cluster appears to be relatively minor, correspondents say.
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  • Has the USA even tested 9 million people since this began?

    • With actual usable test, no the no-contact temperature one talked about here, probably.
      there is no statics for the number of tests given but there have been 7.8 million people who tested positive so unless the test taker have been really lucky then yes for the 9 million.
  • From the picture it implies that they are going to do non-contact temperature assessment.
    If so that has a less than 50% success rate of detecting people with the c-virus.
  • Sorry to bring the news to anyone that still thinks that "China has the virus under control", but numbers coming from China are ridiculous. Yesterday the 1.4 billion country reported 21 (one and twenty) cases. Details about the numbers usually mention "foreign source", here "treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad". I guess the author has no idea about how things are working in a communist dictatorship.
  • They can say anything they want to when they control all of the data and the media. https://i.imgur.com/KJiibnr.gi... [imgur.com]

  • There are still reports of high amounts of cremations. Doctors and nurses are still being silenced if they talk about the hospitals still being crammed. Some of posted (and then taken down) about how the lockdown is getting worse. And as for the testing...

    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/... [taiwannews.com.tw]

    I know getting real info out of China is hard but... can we not blindly believe/report the propaganda?

    Lastly, how is this tech news? There's no tech involved here. They just announced they wanted to do this and a bun

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