China continues to pursue the policy of “Zero COVID”, minimizing economic damage

China still pursues the “Zero COVID” policy, but in the face of the fact that the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly in most provinces, this week, the Chinese authorities have made many moves to adjust the prevention strategy. COVID-19 . The most obvious is that the blockade measures took place strongly and decisively to soon reopen epidemic areas. That is the content that most newspapers in China spend a lot of time.

During a recent meeting with senior leaders on the COVID-19 situation, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized maintaining the strategic focus, pursuing progress in coordinating COVID-19 response with economic development – society, apply more effective measures, strive to control the epidemic with minimal costs, and minimize the impact on the socio-economic. Leaders of Party committees and authorities who let the disease spread will be severely dealt with. Recently, 24 officials of Jilin province and Shenzhen city, Guangdong province were dismissed and disciplined for neglecting to fight the epidemic.

Due to the dominant “stealth Omicron” variant, which is contagious but causes mild disease, the country has made many changes to adapt to the situation such as mild patients do not need to go to the hospital for treatment, people have the right to buy drugs. rapid test kit for testing or accepting western medicine.

China affirmed that it still pursues the “Zero COVID” policy, and adjusted its epidemic prevention strategy (Photo: AP)

Antigen test kits are searched by people at pharmacies and on e-commerce sites for more than 70,000 VND/set. Many localities also distribute free of charge to the people. This is an effort to accelerate large-scale community screening of patients. The first batch of Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid has just arrived in Shanghai. China is also on the list of countries licensed by this company to produce Paxlovid domestically in the near future.

In order to adapt to the new variant, many Chinese localities have controlled the epidemic faster and more effectively in the anti-epidemic strategy to quickly open the economy.

Shenzhen, China’s leading economic and technology hub, and a hub for exports around the world, has set a goal of locking down this city of 17.5 million people within a week. However, after only 5 days, 5 districts and special economic zones have lifted the blockade, travel and production activities are almost normal after mass testing did not detect cases. The world’s leading multinational corporations are rushing to resume operations. Beijing city has also eased many regulations such as allowing amusement parks and entertainment areas to increase the service rate from 50% to 75% of capacity, allowing large conferences …

With a focused blockade measure in a short time of a week and many changes in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, many experts predict, this is the beginning of a change in anti-epidemic policy in a rare country in the world. the world pursues this “Zero COVID” strategy.