New lab begins testing for virus

The lab was built amid a rapidly increasing number of pneumonia patients in Hubei province, including its capital city Wuhan, the heart of the epidemic that has put medical facilities in the city under an immense burden to test and diagnose the virus.

The number of institutes certified for nucleic acid tests for the virus in Wuhan has increased to 31. Altogether, they are capable of testing 4,000 virus samples every day, according to the city's health authority.