Second city in China to carry out mass testing for COVID-19

Mudanjiang, a northeastern border city in China, has started to conduct citywide nucleic acid tests since early this week to assess some 2.8 million people, according to the local government, an announcement came after 15 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients reported there last week.

Municipal health authorities have determined to further expand their nucleic acid testing team, consisting of 1,196 people from over 20 medical institutions that had been trained and prepared for the testing.

Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic has reemerged on China's northeastern border, after a growing number of imported cases and cross infections were reported there.