The Chinese city of Wuhan finished almost 1.5 million tests for the unique coronavirus in one day, as authorities undertake a testing blitz to prevent new clusters.
In Spain, where deaths have actually exceeded those in China and which was previously the epicentre of Europe’s outbreak, far-right groups required to the streets to oppose restrictions on celebrations as the Prime Minister announced the nation will resume for tourist in July.
Malaysia, on the other hand, reported a second cluster of coronavirus cases in its migration detention centres, after the arrests of thousands of undocumented migrants consisting of Rohingya refugees in current weeks.
In just a few months, the pandemic has eliminated at least 338,000 people worldwide and contaminated more than 5.2 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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Wuhan’s screening spree sees millions tested
The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the coronavirus break out in China, conducted 1,470,950 nucleic acid tests for the infection on Friday, the local health authority said. Some 1,000,729 tests had been completed