Jilin Province, China Reports New COVID-19 Cases Again... Xi Jinping Says "No Resurgence Allowed"

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] In Jilin Province, where there is a risk of a COVID-19 cluster infection, new confirmed cases continue to be added, keeping the quarantine authorities on high alert.

On the 15th, the National Health Commission of China (NHC) announced that as of midnight, 4 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in China. All 4 cases were from Jilin City, Jilin Province, where concerns about cluster infections are growing. Among them, one case was reclassified from a suspected case to a confirmed case.

The 4 newly added confirmed cases were all people who had contact with infected patients in Shulan City, Jilin Province, where a COVID-19 cluster infection occurred, and with infected patients in Fengman District, Jilin City.

The Chinese government also reported 11 new asymptomatic infections in one day, which are not officially counted as confirmed cases. Currently, there are a total of 619 asymptomatic infections under medical observation in China. Asymptomatic infections refer to people who test positive for COVID-19 but do not show specific symptoms such as fever, cough, or sore throat.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China held in Beijing the day before, instructed not to relax vigilance and to thoroughly enforce quarantine measures in response to the concentrated new confirmed cases emerging in the three northeastern provinces.

According to the People's Daily, President Xi said at the meeting, "Although the overall epidemic prevention situation nationwide is good, the situation outside the country is serious and complex, and the task of preventing domestic resurgence remains heavy." He added, "We must never relax vigilance. Measures to prevent imported cases and internal spread must be well implemented to ensure that the hard-won achievements in epidemic prevention are not wasted." He also ordered to strengthen tailored epidemic prevention measures in the three northeastern provinces where recent cluster infections have been reported.

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