China reports no new coronavirus cases after recent infections raised second spike fears as Wuhan prepares to test ALL 11million citizens in 10 days

• China reported no new native infections and one imported case on Tuesday
• It comes after officials had registered double-digit growths two days in a row
• Wuhan recorded a new cluster over the weekend, raising fears of another wave
• The city has reportedly ordered all citizens to be tested in a ’10 day great battle’ 
• Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

China reported no new domestic coronavirus infections on Tuesday, after two consecutive days of double-digit increases fuelled fears of a second wave of infections.

The news came as the government of Wuhan ordered its districts to test all of their residents in the next 10 days to prevent a fresh outbreak, according to a directive.

China has largely brought the virus under control, but it remains on edge, fearful that a virus rebound could undermine its efforts to get the economy back up and running.

China reported no new domestic coronavirus infections and one imported case on Tuesday. Pictured, a worker in Wuhan checks a woman’s temperature before allowing her to take a taxi

China has largely brought the virus under control, but it remains on edge, fearful that a virus rebound could undermine its efforts to reboot its economy. Pictured, a worker watches screens showing the temperature of passengers at a train station in Wuhan on Tuesday

A new cluster reappeared over the weekend in the city of Wuhan, where the pandemic first emerged, while Shulan in north-eastern China was placed under lockdown on Sunday after another outbreak emerged.

Shulan, a city of around 600,000 people in Jilin province, had registered 12 COVID-19 cases in the space of two days, all linked to the same source. A 13th case was reported yesterday.

The Chinese National Health Commission has set out a team of experts to Shulan to help it fight the disease, according to a spokesperson of the Commission.

The Wuhan government yesterday ordered all of its 11million citizens to be tested for COVID-19 in a ’10 day great battle’ to avoid a comeback of the killer infection.

It came after officials reported the first cluster of infections in Wuhan since a lockdown on the central Chinese city was lifted a month ago, stoking concerns of a wider resurgence of the disease.

The order for all citizens to undergo testing appeared in an emergency document issued last night by the Wuhan counter-epidemic command centre, it is reported. A grade-three student of Hubei Wuchang Experimental High School is pictured receiving nucleic acid test on April 30

The five new confirmed cases in Wuhan all live in the same residential compound. One of them was the wife of an 89-year-old male patient reported a day earlier in the first confirmed case in the city in more than a month.

The order for all citizens to undergo testing appeared in an emergency document issued last night by the Wuhan Command Centre for the Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic to all of its district branches, reported Chinese news outlets, including The Paper and Beijing News.  

All districts must submit their official plans on how to organise the medical checks by noon today and will have 10 days to carry out nucleic acid tests on their residents, it is understood.

The nucleic acid test detects the presence of the novel coronavirus in a person’s body. 

More than one million Wuhan residents have already undergone tests, but the scale of testing is ‘not enough’, an insider told the press. Residents of Wuhan are pictured riding their bicycles 

More than one million Wuhan residents have already undergone nucleic acid tests in the past. However, the scale of testing is ‘not enough’ to effectively prevent a new outbreak, according to Shanghai-based news outlet Yicai, citing an insider.

It remains unclear if those who have been tested would be included in the new testing plan. 

All of the latest confirmed cases were previously classified as asymptomatic, people who test positive for the virus and are capable of infecting others but do not show clinical signs such as a fever.

The number of asymptomatic cases in China is not known, as they only appear on the radar of health officials when they show up positive during tests conducted as part of contact tracing and health checks.

In Wuhan (pictured), 3,869 people have died of COVID-19, and 50,339 have so far been infected, according to Hubei Provincial Health Commission. The country’s official death toll remains at 4,633, while the total number of infections in the mainland is 82,919

On Monday, China’s National Health Commission reported 17 new cases, five of them in Wuhan. Seven of the new cases were imported.

A day earlier, China announced the first double-digit increase in nationwide cases in nearly 10 days, saying 14 new infections had been confirmed.

For the 27th consecutive day, there were no deaths reported. One imported case was recorded in the province of Inner Mongolia.

The country’s official death toll remains at 4,633, while the total number of infections in the mainland is 82,919.

In Wuhan, 3,869 people have died of COVID-19, and 50,339 have so far been infected, according to Hubei Provincial Health Commission. 

Last month, the city revised its coronavirus death toll up by 50 per cent. The move sparked further doubts over the authenticity of China’s official COVID-19 figures.

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