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<br>BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) - The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, has found no new cases of people suffering from COVID-19 after testing almost its entire population, and 300 asymptomatic carriers of the virus, officials said on Tuesday.<br> <br>Authorities launched the vast testing campaign on May 14,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] and reached 9.9 million out of 11 million people, after a cluster of new cases raised fears of a second wave of infections.<br> <br>China does not count people who are infected with the virus but do not show symptoms of the disease as confirmed cases.<br> <br>Officials told reporters in a briefing that there had been no new confirmed cases, and said the asymptomatic carriers had been found not to be infectious; masks, toothbrushes,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] phones, door handles and elevator buttons that they [http://www.empowher.com/search/site/touched touched] had no traces of virus.<br> <br>The central city, capital of Hubei province, was placed under a lockdown on Jan. 23.<br><br>It was lifted on April 8.<br> <br>Wuhan was the hardest hit Chinese city and accounts for the majority of the 4,634 deaths and 83,022 infections reported in [http://www.business-opportunities.biz/search/?q=mainland%20China mainland China].<br> <br>The cost of the city-wide testing effort was about 900 million yuan ($126 million).<br> <br>The northeastern city of Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang province will also launch city-wide virus testing, the local government said on its website, after finding over a dozen asymptomatic cases.<br><br>(Reporting by Lusha Zhang, Roxanne Liu and Se Young Lee; Editing by Robert Birsel and Kevin Liffey)<br>