Ambitious plan: Can China test whole Wuhan city in 10 days?

Beijing : China is working on a very ambitious plan where they will be testing the whole population of Wuhan, from where first case of coronavirus was registered, in just 10 days.

The announcement came after the emergence of six new coronavirus cases in the city - the first ones since early April.

At first it was announced that the authorities will be testing 11 million people in just 10 days; however, it looks like they will end up reducing the time table.

How long will the testing take?

In late April, the Hubei provincial government reported 63,000 people were being tested in Wuhan every day. 

There are more than 60 testing centres across the city, according to the official Hubei Daily newspaper.

These have a maximum capacity of 100,000 tests a day at most, making it hard to see how the target of testing the entire population in 10 days could be met.

"Some districts [in the city] will start from 12 May, others from 17 May, for example," the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control said.

"Each district finishes its tests within 10 days from the date it started."