--- title: "After Six New Cases, Wuhan Plans to Test All 11 Million Residents" description: "Wuhan, the Chinese city that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report." date: "2020-05-12" modified: "2020-05-12" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/after-new-cases-wuhan-test-all-11-million-residents" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "china" - "coronavirus" - "covid19" - "wuhan" --- # After Six New Cases, Wuhan Plans to Test All 11 Million Residents ![Wuhan, the Chinese city that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report.]() *\Image: Images via Pixabay/Victor Tangermann\* Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report, as the [*BBC* reports](). The move comes after the city reported six new cases over the weekend. Before this weekend, the city had recorded no new cases since April 3 and started easing restrictions on April 8 — with schools reopening, public transport restarting, and businesses opening their doors again. The city's report calls the major testing push a "10-day battle," according to the *BBC*, leaving individual decisionmaking up to each of the city's districts. According to the [state-run newspaper *Global Times*](), experts worry that the plan might end up being extremely costly. But Peng Zhiyong, director of the intensive care unit of the Zhongnan Hospital at the Wuhan University, told the paper that since three to five million residents have already been tested, Wuhan should be able to "test the remaining 6 to 8 million in 10 days." Other experts, however, worry that those who initially tested negative might have already been reinfected. Hence "it's essentially an epidemiological investigation to determine the current situation," Yang Zhanqiu, deputy director of the pathogen biology department at Wuhan University, told the *Global Times.* The scale of the operation is staggering — and dwarfs most national testing efforts. So far, the entirety of the United States has only tested nine million people, [according to the White House](). ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()