Xinhua news agency, Beijing, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- recently, a new type of coronavirus infection of pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province and other areas. As of 18:00 on January 20, 224 cases of pneumonia with new coronavirus infection have been reported in China, including 217 confirmed cases (198 in Wuhan, 5 in Beijing and 14 in Guangdong); 7 suspected cases (2 in Sichuan, 1 in Yunnan, 2 in Shanghai, 1 in Guangxi and 1 in Shandong). One confirmed case was reported in Japan, two in Thailand and one in South Korea.
After the outbreak, the Party Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to it. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made important instructions. In recent years, a new outbreak of coronavirus infection in Wuhan and other places in Hubei city has occurred. We must attach great importance to it and do our best to prevent and control it. At present, during the Spring Festival, there is a large-scale intensive flow of people, so it is very important to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. Party committees and governments at all levels and relevant departments should put people's life safety and physical health first, formulate comprehensive plans, organize all parties to carry out prevention and control, take effective measures to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. We should try our best to treat patients, find out the causes of virus infection and transmission as soon as possible, strengthen case monitoring and standardize the treatment process. We should release timely information on the epidemic situation and deepen international cooperation. We should strengthen the guidance of public opinion, strengthen the publicity and interpretation of relevant policies and measures, resolutely maintain the overall social stability, and ensure that the people spend a stable and peaceful Spring Festival.
Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, gave instructions that all relevant departments and localities should take a highly responsible attitude towards the health of the people, improve the response plan, make every effort to do a good job in prevention and control, and implement early detection, early report, early isolation, early treatment and centralized treatment measures. We will speed up the identification of the source of the virus, the mechanism of infection and transmission, release information on the epidemic situation and prevention and control work in a timely and objective manner, and disseminate knowledge about epidemic prevention and control in a scientific way. We will do a good job in communication and coordination with the World Health Organization, relevant countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and work closely to form a joint force to resolutely prevent the spread of the epidemic.
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