Xu Kunlin, governor of Jiangsu, demanded tough measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus by following General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on epidemic prevention and control and implementing the requirements of the CPC Central Committee. He made the remarks when going on an inspection tour in Jurong County, Zhenjiang city on Monday.
Noting that the current resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic in Jurong has made the epidemic prevention and control extremely severe, and the task extremely arduous, Xu Kunlin asked the local government authorities to further enhance their political stance, adhere to the general strategy of preventing inbound cases from overseas and sporadic resurgence at home, ensure dynamic zero case policy so as to make every effort to curb the spread of the epidemic, and resolutely prevent the spillover of the epidemic.
He demanded more efforts to scale up nucleic acid testing, strengthening epidemiological investigations, tracing the chain of infection and the source of infection as soon as possible, and strive to identify all potential infected persons as soon as possible.
Xu Kunlin required more measures to respond to people's concerns, meet people's needs for basic living, medical treatment and purchase of medicines, ensure material reserves and stable prices, and resolutely win the battle of epidemic prevention and control.
Epidemic prevention and control should be placed at top priority so as to further optimize and upgrade prevention and control measures, adhere to the general strategy of preventing inbound cases from overseas and sporadic resurgence at home and use the strictest means to stop the spread of the epidemic, he said.
The governor noted that strict measures should be taken to standardize the management of isolation sites, designated hospitals, and nucleic acid testing sites, reduce group gatherings, and race against time to quickly and completely eliminate the epidemic in the regions where sporadic resurgence of covid-19 cases have been reported.
He also demanded all-out efforts to treat patients, strengthen the prevention and control of hospital infection, respond to people's concerns, meet people's needs for basic living, medical treatment and purchase of medicines, ensure material reserves and stable prices, and resolutely win the battle of epidemic prevention and control.
