Authorities in Wuhan fired a local official after six new Covid-19 cases were confirmed over the weekend in a housing complex under his jurisdiction, in a sign of the government’s anxieties about the possibility of a resurgence in the original center of the pandemic. The new cases in Wuhan were discovered after more than 5,000 residents in and around one community on Monday had completed nucleic acid tests, or detection of the virus via nose or throat mucus samples, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. They are the...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 11, 2020 13:59 UTC