China leadership hails victory over COVID-19

Published: February 20,2021

By Staff writer 

On Thursday last week, president Xi Jinping who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee chaired the Political Bureau the party’s top leadership organ. According to media sources, the meeting observed that China has secured a major, decisive victory in fighting COVID-19, creating a miracle in the history of human civilization. Despite having the biggest population in the world, the country was able to successfully prevailing over the pandemic.

The CPC Central Committee observed that the measures put in place by the party to fight the pandemic worked well as expected with some adjustments in epidemic prevention and control.  A statement released after the meeting, hailed China’s “extremely extraordinary” efforts in fighting the epidemic for more than three years, saying that the CPC Central Committee with Xi at the core has always put people and their lives first and foremost, and united and led the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups in concerted efforts to combat the epidemic.

“With a strong sense of historical responsibility and strategic resolve, the CPC Central Committee has constantly optimized and adjusted epidemic prevention and control policies and measures in line with the development of the virus, and efficiently coordinated epidemic response and socioeconomic development”, the statement said.

China has successfully evaded the wide spread of virus strains with a high pathogenicity and a high fatality rate, effectively protecting the lives and health of the people and winning valuable time to prevail over the epidemic, it added.

Since November, China has treated 200 million infected patients, including nearly 800,000 critically ill patients, and the death rate from COVID-19 has remained at the lowest level in the world, the statement said.

The meeting’s participants stressed that COVID-19 remains prevalent worldwide and the virus continues to mutate, while the current overall situation of epidemic prevention and control in China is getting better.

Participants urged efforts to improve epidemic response measures and mechanisms in the new stage, strengthen the healthcare system, and firmly consolidate the hard-won achievements.