COVID-19: China’s Wuhan says it conducted 11.4 lakh tests on May 23

China's Wuhan city, the epicentre of coronavirus pandemic, has conducted over 11.46 lakh coronavirus tests on May 23, local health authorities said on Sunday, compared with 14.7 lakh tests a day earlier. Authorities in Wuhan began a mass testing campaign on May 14.

The city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 1,146,156 nucleic acid tests on May 23, the local health authority said on Sunday, compared with 1,470,950 tests a day earlier.

Wuhan began a campaign on May 14 to look for asymptomatic carriers – infected people who show no outward sign of illness – after confirming on May 9-10 its first cluster of COVID-19 infections since the city’s release from a virtual Lockdown on April 8.