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. 2020 Jul 25:ciaa1043. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1043

Post-pandemic testing of SARS-CoV-2 in Huanan Seafood Market area in Wuhan, China

Jingwen Li 1,1, Chengbi Wu 2,1, Xing Zhang 3,1, Lan Chen 4,1, Xinyi Wang 1, Xiuli Guan 5, Jinghong Li 6,1, Zhicheng Lin 7,2, Nian Xiong 1,3,2,✉
PMCID: PMC7454404  PMID: 32710746

Abstract

76 days after the COVID-19 epidemic was contained in Wuhan, the Chinese government carried out a citywide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing for all the residents from May 14th to June 1st, 2020. Our hospital tested 107,662 residents around Huanan Seafood Market, uncovering a positivity rate of 0.006%.

Keywords: asymptomatic, infectious, COVID-19, Huanan Seafood Market

Articles from Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America are provided here courtesy of Oxford University Press

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