China's Wuhan says conducted 1,470,950 COVID-19 tests on Friday

Reuters

Published May 23, 2020 08:00AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 1,470,950 nucleic acid tests for the virus on Friday, the local health authority said on Saturday, compared with 1,000,729 tests the previous day.