Wuhan — Coronavirus tests can be difficult to come by in many countries including in hard-hit parts of the US and Britain, but in Wuhan, the Chinese epicentre of the pandemic, they are fast, cheap and easy to get.
My colleagues and I had just arrived in the central city where the novel coronavirus emerged in humans late last year, and as a foreigner I was told that I was required to take a nucleic test to prove that I was free of the potentially deadly flu-like virus...
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