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TO navigate a complex anti-epidemic situation, relevant authorities across China are making concerted efforts to optimise their COVID-19 response to tackle the issue.
Tuo Jia, an official with the national administration of disease prevention and control, said this during a news conference.
According to Tuo, since the outbreak of COVID-19, China, which has put people and their lives above all else, has worked to prevent both imported cases and domestic resurgences, and tenaciously pursued a dynamic zero-COVID policy.
As a result of the country’s anti-epidemic endeavour, people’s health and safety had been protected to the greatest extent possible,” the official said.
“Notable achievements have been made in coordinating the COVID-19 response with economic and social development.
“But COVID-19 control in China still faces a complex situation, with a notable resurgence of regional outbreaks and cluster infections reported in several cities.
“Meanwhile, it has been observed that some regional authorities had adopted simplistic measures to contain the virus, such as implementing undifferentiated quarantine policies and expanding travel restrictions.
“Such behaviour constitutes pointless formalities and bureaucratism, and goes against the requirements of scientific and targeted epidemic control and coordinating the COVID-19 response with economic and social development,” Tuo stated.
The official further said: “To remedy the issue, the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism against COVID-19, has briefed on acts that took an oversimplified, one-size-fits-all approach or excessive measures on prevention and control.”
The government called for efforts to strictly follow the ninth edition of the country’s COVID-19 control protocols, to make the epidemic response more science-based.
It cited the local authority of Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan Province, which ordered a more precise designation of restrictive control areas within residential compounds so as to avert excessive epidemic response.
Municipalities, including Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, Daqing in Heilongjiang Province, Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, and Beijing, also took well-calibrated measures, ranging from the dynamic assessment of epidemic status, it said.
It therefore, said thanks to concerted anti-epidemic endeavours nationwide, the spread of the epidemic was generally under control.
Faced with the current risks posed by the COVID-19 epidemic, Chinese authorities continue to make the epidemic response more science-based and targeted.
It said it striving to achieve the best results in epidemic control with minimum costs, and minimise the epidemic’s impact on economic and social development. (Xinhua/NAN)
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