COVID-19 | China's Wuhan to test ‘all residents’

City of 11 million placed under lockdown, transport links snapped.

Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year. China is battling its largest coronavirus outbreak in months, confining the residents of entire cities to their homes, cutting transport links and rolling out mass testing as the fast-spreading Delta variant challenges its zero-Covid strategy and homegrown vaccines. Beijing had previously boasted of its success in crushing the virus, allowing the economy to rebound and normal life to return while swathes of the globe have struggled with the pandemic that has killed more than four million people worldwide.