中央应对疫情工作领导小组:适当延长春节假期,调整学校开学时间
China will adopt a host of measures including extending the Spring Festival holiday, delaying the start of the spring semester at colleges and schools and supporting work online to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a decision released at a high-level meeting on Sunday.
Premier Li Keqiang presided over the meeting of the leading group of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on coping with the novel coronavirus, a pneumonia-causing virus, in Beijing. Li is head of the group.
The meeting underscored the need for greater effort to bolster epidemic prevention and control in Hubei province and Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak. The country will coordinate resources nationwide and prioritize efforts to support the province and its capital with medical workers and resources such as protection suits and surgical masks, the statement said. The supply of necessities for residents in the area must be ensured with unimpeded passage to be offered for resources distributed to the region, it added. Provincial and municipal authorities in the area must carry out their responsibilities, accelerate the construction of special hospitals for admitting infected patients and renovate hotels as segregation zones, it said.
Authorities in areas with a large number of patients must increase the number of designated treatment hospitals, hospital beds and quarantine areas, the statement said.
Authorities must attach great importance to epidemic control and prevention in rural areas and give full play to the role of primary-level organizations and village doctors, the statement said.
It called for maximum effort to reduce the mortality of patients and enhance the treatment of patients. More research will be conducted on cured patients and treatment measures will be further refined, with more training set to be offered to medical workers.
The meeting urged quicker breakthroughs in research of vaccines for the virus, saying experts and researchers must work together in the process and social organizations must be encouraged to participate.
It also vowed strong accountability for those who concealed, underreported or delayed the reporting of infection cases, adding information on epidemic control and prevention will be made public in a timely manner.
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