A meeting to coordinate national, provincial and city-level efforts in the fight against COVID-19 was held in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province on August 9. 

Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu, and Zhang Jinghua, deputy secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, joined Lei Haichao, deputy director of the National Health Commission in the meeting.  

Wu said the top priority is to protect people’s life and the province needs to go all out to fight the pandemic. It’s necessary to strengthen the epidemic monitoring and information reporting, improve the emergency response against infection clusters, and boost the capacity of nucleic acid testing.