Coronavirus: citizens in one China hotspot undergo 12 rounds of tests to halt virus but there is a cost

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A city in eastern China has carried out 12 rounds of Covid-19 testing of its population in three weeks during the country’s take-no-chances effort to stop the coronavirus in its tracks.

The intensive testing – a pillar of China’s “zero-tolerance” prevention and control strategy – has helped Yangzhou in Jiangsu province to effectively suppress transmission but it has also taken a heavy toll on the city’s health care system, and caused serious disruption to people’s daily lives.

Yangzhou became the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak in July when about a dozen cleaners at a Nanjing airport tested positive for the Delta variant. The virus spread quickly among the local population with 561 confirmed infections by Wednesday. However, only six new cases were added on Wednesday – a significant drop compared with the tallies recorded last week.

According to local health officials, Yangzhou has carried out 17.6 million Covid-19 tests in 12 rounds since July 28.

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This is how did China contain the virus, massive testing multiple times. Another thing is China isolated all positive cases in hospitals not left them at home and run around. China has controlled the latest Delta strain outbreak in 3-4 weeks. Yangzhou COVID-19 cases was only 1 yesterday.

The city of just over 4.5 million people. Yangzhou has reported 590 confirmed local cases after identification of the first infection on July 28, 0 death. The highest single day cases were 58.