COVID-19 testing goes on, rain or shine

A downpour on Thursday afternoon did not halt nucleic acid testing for the novel coronavirus in Beijing's Haidian district.

As the rain fell, several buses carrying dozens of people from across the district arrived at a testing station near the West Fourth Ring Road.

Fifty medics from hospitals in Haidian, divided into 10 groups, worked under tents, taking residents' throat swabs, registering their information, and putting the samples away in a protected storage box. The box would later be transported to a local disease control and prevention center for analysis in the next two days.