The new cases - all of them people who had previously shown no symptoms of the disease - spurred Wuhan authorities to launch a citywide search for asymptomatic carriers of the virus, aiming to gauge the level of COVID-19 risk.
People wearing face masks wait in line to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus on a street in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on May 16, 2020. Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus on May 14 after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign.
Wuhan health authorities sprang back into action after confirming last weekend the central Chinese city's first cluster of new infections since it was released from virtual lockdown on April 8. "Some people have expressed worry in the groups about the tests, which require people to cluster, and whether there's any infection risk," said one Wuhan resident who asked not to be named.The unprecedented scale of testing indicates the official level of concern, some experts say. Others say it is an extremely costly exercise and question its effectiveness.
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