National Health Commission: More than 40,000 medical personnel have been dispatched from 16 provinces across the country to support Shanghai

　　This afternoon (April 12), the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference.

At the meeting, Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Health Commission, said that according to the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, as of now, the National Health and Health Commission has dispatched more than 40,000 medical personnel from 16 provinces across the country and has a daily capacity of 2.38 million tubes of nucleic acid testing. Support Shanghai, and work with medical staff in Shanghai to carry out medical treatment of new coronary pneumonia and nucleic acid testing.

(CCTV reporter Shi Yingchun Liu Tingyu)