Wuhan is testing liberally as it tries to get back up and running after lifting a 76-day lockdown last week. The term “nucleic acid test” has become a familiar one in the city of 11 million people, where many companies are asking workers to present test results before they can return to work, although it is not mandatory. “If you’re an enterprise with 500 employees and you want to start working again, you test everybody.”Covid-19: backdrop and beyondAcross China, officials are simplifying and speeding up the process to obtain a nucleic acid test, even though questions persist about its accuracy. Some Chinese doctors have pushed to raise requirements for discharging hospitalised patients from two negative nucleic acid tests to three. Cities including Beijing have required some arriving travellers to present test results when entering.

Source: The Express Tribune April 14, 2020 06:56 UTC