Chinese County Sets ‘Wartime’ Mode With No New COVID-19 Cases; Citizens Suspicious

Residents wearing masks wait in line for nucleic acid testing at a residential community in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei Province, on May 15, 2020. Getty Images

A county in northern China’s Hubei Province was placed under “wartime” status to prevent the spread of COVID-19, though local officials have not publicly confirmed any local outbreak.

Chinese officials in Luotian County made the announcement on Nov. 12 via its social media account on Weibo, stating that “warlike discipline would be enforced in order to put local health prevention efforts in a state of “high-efficiency,” Weibo is China’s equivalent to Twitter.