A prefecture bordering North Korea and Russia became the first region in the Omicron-hit Jilin Province to clear all lockdown communities on Wednesday, signaling that the province is moving a step closer to achieving the dynamic-zero goal.
Epidemic-hit Jilin Province in Northeast China has received and distributed 10,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug Paxlovid to the anti-epidemic frontlines, the first batch of this coronavirus oral pill to be used in the Chinese mainland after gaining approval.
Northeast China s Jilin Province has built eight makeshift hospitals and two quarantine centers to cope with the surge of COVID-19 cases. The Party chief of the province said that the battle against the Omicron outbreak is at a crucial stage, and asked the province to
China updated its COVID-19 playbook on Tuesday night, ordering COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms go to quarantine in centralized isolation facilities instead of being hospitalized, and lowering the bar for patients to be discharged from hospital. Top epidemiologists hailed the adjustment as a