SHANGHAI – China ordered on Saturday that someone working in some service-related jobs in Wuhan should take a coronavirus test if they want to leave the city.

The order comes after the central city, where coronaviruses emerged late last year, removing a 70-day lockdown, but all ended the epidemic there.

The National Health Commission said in an order that people in Wuhan work in nursing, education, security and other fields.

The commission said that the government of Hubei Province, which is the capital of Wuhan, would pay for the trials.

As the city relaxed its lockdown restrictions, which arrived there before the Chinese New Year, when the virus was at its peak in China, they are allowed back into their homes.

Those working in other fields aiming to leave Wuhan are encouraged to undergo voluntary testing before leaving.

Within seven days of arriving at their destinations, people who can present the test results show that they are not carrying the virus, as well as a clean bill of health on the Health app can go back to work.

Everyone else must spend 14 days in quarantine before returning to work.

Authorities have worked with China’s tech giants to design a color-based health code system, retrieved via a mobile app, that geolocation data and self-report to indicate someone’s health status Uses information.

The commission said that Wuhan will intensify its efforts to investigate asymptomatic coronavirus cases and confirm the presence of antibodies in people, which may suggest immunity.

Wuhan, which accounts for 60% of infections in China and 84% of deaths as of Saturday, has been aggressively testing residents during the virus’s breakout and many companies are already allowing city workers to resume work She was asking to test first.

Authorities said Wuhan revised its death from coronavirus to 1,290 on Friday, taking the city’s toll to 3,869 due to misreporting, delays and omissions, especially in the chaotic early stages of the outbreak.

China has a national mortality rate of 4,632 out of 82,719 cases.