Xi directed Deputy Prime Minister Han Zheng to convey Chinese Communist Party leaders’ concerns about the Hong Kong outbreak to the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam.
Xi directed Deputy Prime Minister Han Zheng to convey Chinese Communist Party leaders’ concerns about the Hong Kong outbreak to the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam.
A Hong Kong newspaper said on February 16 that China’s leader Xi Jinping took a personal interest in Hong Kong’s outbreak, saying it was an “overriding task” of the local government to control the situation.
According to pro-Beijing news outlet Wen Wei Po, Xi personally issued the instructions and sent deputy prime minister Han Zheng to the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, by Chinese Communist Party leaders following the high level of concern about the ongoing outbreak in Hong Kong. instructed to express.
Mr Zheng stressed that the Hong Kong government “must take the core responsibility seriously and consider Ms Lam’s rapid stabilization and control of the epidemic as the current overriding task”, the outlet said.
Topping 2,000 new COVID-19 cases per day this week, Hong Kong is facing its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The Hong Kong government has already put in place strict rules banning gatherings in more than two households.
Mr Zheng said China’s central government agencies and neighboring Guangdong province would provide Hong Kong with resources to fight the outbreak, including rapid antigen testing, medical expertise and supplies.
China has been able to control the virus within its borders, maintaining a strict “zero-tolerance” policy that includes a total lockdown and mass testing of millions of people.
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