Chinese vice premier stresses solid COVID-19 control during upcoming holidays

BEIJING -- Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan has stressed efforts to carry out COVID-19 prevention and control in a scientific and accurate manner during the upcoming holidays of New Year's Day and Spring Festival.

Related measures should be implemented faithfully to tackle inbound COVID-19 cases and a domestic resurgence, Sun, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said at a teleconference on Tuesday.

Sun said that preventing imported cases is the current priority in China's anti-COVID-19 work. She urged upgraded prevention and control work at ports as well as guarding against infection clusters due to imported cases.

She also stressed the need to strengthen epidemic prevention and control at the primary level and promote vaccination among the elderly.