Xu Kunlin, governor of east China’s Jiangsu province, demanded strict measures to curb and contain the sporadic resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic 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 Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Suzhou, Zhenjiang and Yangzhou when going on an inspection tour on the joint prevention and control of the covid-19 epidemic.
During his inspection tour to Combibloc (Suzhou) Co. Ltd, Tiansizhuang Campus of Soochow University, and Renfengli Historical and Cultural District of Yangzhou, Xu Kunlin called for effective measures to adhere to a problem-oriented approach, implement local responsibilities, strengthen and optimize epidemic prevention and control measures, resolutely block virus transmission channels, ensure the transportation of livelihood supplies and important production materials, ensure the safety and stability of industrial chains and supply chains, and promote normal production and living order.
Noting that the current resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic has made the epidemic prevention and control extremely severe, and the task extremely arduous, the governor 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.
The governor also 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 urged strong measures to speed up the transfer and isolation of infected persons, strengthen traffic control, inspect various checkpoints, entrances and exits at provincial and municipal boundaries, prevent the spread of the epidemic, strengthen the management of key personnel and places, and strengthen the prevention and control of construction sites, ports, schools, hospitals and fever clinics, nursing homes, prisons, farmers markets, enterprises, cold chain logistics, and imported goods yards.
When presiding over a symposium, Xu Kulin demanded all-out efforts to support Shanghai in its fight against the epidemic, 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.
He also required specific measures to respond to people's concerns, meet people's needs for livelihood, medical treatment and purchase of medicines, ensure material reserves and stable prices, and resolutely win the battle of epidemic prevention and control.
