China’s Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said on Monday that new coronavirus cases in the country had fallen to “relatively low” levels. China is approaching the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions of people will be in close contact with each other through domestic public transport and festive gatherings.
Vice Premier Sun, who is in charge of the government’s anti-coronavirus policy, said during a visit to a hospital in Beijing that China was on track to enter a new stage in its fight against the novel coronavirus, and that the process was “stable and orderly.” standing,” he said.
Earlier this week, Vice Premier Liu He told a crowd of foreign wealthy and bankers in Davos, Switzerland, that the peak of the epidemic had passed. Chinese President Xi Jinping has also said that the country’s fight against the coronavirus is entering a new phase and that “the dawn is near.”
Deputy Prime Minister Sun said the number of hospitalizations for severely ill patients had fallen “steadily” and that medical care was clearly having an effect. On the other hand, he emphasized that emergency treatment is still a difficult situation for medical workers. The content is in line with President Xi’s remarks that the current infection situation is “very severe.”
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