China Deploys Medical Experts, Resources to Border Regions to Battle COVID-19

BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese authorities on Monday urged efforts to send medical experts and resources from inland areas to border regions to help fight COVID-19.

The instruction was given at a meeting of the leading group of China's COVID-19 epidemic response.

The working teams of medical experts will support and guide local epidemic prevention and control work, the construction of makeshift hospitals, the setting-up of designated quarantine facilities and medical institutions, and the treatment of patients.

Testing kits and facilities, and diagnosis and treatment equipment should be sent to border regions and port cities, according to the meeting.

The meeting also stressed strict supervision of the quality of export medical materials, and punishments for unqualified and substandard production and the practices of driving up the prices of epidemic prevention products and raw materials.

The National Health Commission said Monday that it received reports of 108 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Sunday, of which 98 were imported.

As of Sunday, the mainland had reported a total of 1,378 imported cases.

(Source: Xinhua)