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A woman undergoes a swab test for coronavirus in Shanghai's Pudong district.
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BEIJING - It takes about two seconds to get swabbed for Covid-19 in China.
A plastic swab is removed from a plastic sleeve and stuck into a waiting mouth, before the top is broken off into a plastic test tube.
