China News Service, Beijing, March 21 (Reporter Liu Yuying) Xiao Yaqing, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, presided over a meeting of the Party Group on the 21st to study and further improve the support and guarantee of epidemic prevention and control.

  According to the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the meeting emphasized that it is necessary to continue to improve the security and supply system for key medical materials, strengthen the production scheduling and supply guarantee of nucleic acid detection and antigen detection reagents, vaccines, key drugs, medical equipment and other medical materials, and strengthen the precise connection between supply and demand to ensure timely and sufficient supply. quantity supply.

Continue to fully support Hong Kong's fight against the epidemic and meet the needs of medical supplies.

  The meeting also emphasized that the communication big data platform should give full play to its supporting services, strengthen operation and maintenance inspections, scientifically dispatch computing resources, ensure the smooth operation of the platform, and improve the efficiency of regional co-investigation.

  In December last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that China's annual production capacity of the new crown vaccine reached 7 billion doses.

According to data from the National Health Commission of China last week, as of March 18, a total of 3,218.716 million doses of the new crown vaccine had been reported nationwide, and the total number of vaccinations reached 1,273.811 million.

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