East China’s Jiangsu province held a meeting Saturday on the battle against the spreading COVID-19 virus in Nanjing. Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu, requested more efforts to curb the spread of the virus. Lei Haichao, head of the Jiangsu Working Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Group of the State Council and deputy director of the National Health Commission, put forward clear requirements for epidemic control in the coming days.
Wu Zhenglong pointed out that the coming week is very critical for the prevention and control of the epidemic. As the main battlefield of the province’s epidemic prevention and control, Nanjing must more firmly and consciously follow General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions and implement the work requirements put forward by the National Working Group and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee so as to quickly cut off the transmission chain, and resolutely prevent the epidemic from spilling over outside the province.
Wu Zhenglong emphasized that the prevention and control of the epidemic is the current top priority, and various measures must be taken without relaxation and perseverance, adding that it is important to conduct epidemiological investigations and trace the source more quickly, coordinate public health, public security, industry and information, and find out all potential infections as soon as possible.
The governor requires stricter isolation control. Centralized isolation must be separated. The management of safety, fire protection, and prevention and control of isolation sites must be further strengthened. Home isolation and community management must strictly implement hard regulations to prevent cross-infection.
The Governor requested more measures to gain a full understanding of the current severe situation of the epidemic, resolutely overcome the slackening of vigilance, and scientifically and effectively strengthen prevention and control on the basis of careful analysis and judgment.
All parts of the province,including Nanjing, should make every effort to strengthen the primary task and top priority of epidemic prevention and control, adhere to problem-oriented and effect-oriented, find and fill up loopholes in the work, and implement detailed prevention and control measures, said the governor.
Wu Zhenglong requested further measures in a scientific and pragmatic spirit to grasp the law of spread of the epidemic and the characteristics of the spread of delta strains, so as to strengthen prevention and control more systematically and accurately, effectively cut the transmission chain, and strictly prevent the spillover of the confirmed cases outside the province.
