Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for stepping up efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country as soon as possible as part of the “zero tolerance” strategy adopted by China since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.
Xi, addressing a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on the pandemic situation in the country, stressed the need to protect lives in accordance with the strategy ” zero tolerance “.
China has experienced an increase of Covid-19 infections since the beginning of the current month, the most worrying since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
The authorities have ordered the lockdown of several regions, in particular in the province of Jilin, in the northeast of the country, which records the highest number of infections.
The country recorded 1,226 cases on Wednesday, according to a tally published Thursday by the national health commission. On Tuesday, China recorded 1,860 and 3,507 on Monday. No Covid-19-related deaths have been reported.
China, where the virus was initially detected at the end of 2019 in Wuhan (center), quickly stemmed the pandemic in the spring of 2020 by adopting very strict measures, sometimes affecting entire cities.
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