Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, March 11th (Reporters Hu Hao and Zhao Wenjun) On the evening of the 10th, the Central Steering Group immediately convened a meeting to quickly convey the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his investigation of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hubei Province. Pay close attention to various prevention and control work.

Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy prime minister of the State Council and leader of the Central Steering Group, said that under the personal leadership, directing and deployment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Hubei and Wuhan has undergone positive changes and important results have been achieved in stages. At a critical moment in the fight against the epidemic, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the front line to inspect and direct and give strong guidance to the epidemic prevention and control, which gave us great encouragement and further strengthened the confidence and determination of Wuhan win, Hubei win, and China win.

Sun Chunlan emphasized that it is necessary to consolidate the thinking and actions into the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, and to promote Hubei and Wuhan to continue to make epidemic prevention and control a top priority and the most important task at present. Persist in putting medical treatment first, summarize and promote effective diagnosis and treatment programs, do a good job in treating critically ill patients, and make every effort to save more patients' lives. Continue to consolidate territorial responsibilities, implement community and key place management and control, and effectively assume major responsibilities for external defense exports. Strengthen the living security and services of the masses, focus on helping the lonely elderly, children and other special groups, and make efforts to improve the psychological counseling and humanistic care of the masses. We must keep a clear head, be careful, and continue to work hard and make good progress. With stricter style and more effective measures, we must implement the Party Central Committee ’s decision-making and central response to the epidemic work.

On the afternoon of the 11th, the central steering group held a special meeting to study and further strengthen the treatment of patients with severe and critically ill patients with new coronary pneumonia.