National Health Commission: 38,000 medical personnel from 15 provinces across the country support Shanghai

Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Health Commission, said at a press conference of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism on the 6th that recently, the epidemic in Shanghai has developed rapidly, and epidemic prevention and control is at a critical period. According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the National Health and Health Commission has dispatched more than 38,000 medical personnel and 2.38 million daily nucleic acid testing forces from 15 provinces across the country to support Shanghai, carry out nucleic acid testing and treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia, and help improve medical care. Rescue and nucleic acid detection capabilities will continue to deploy support forces as needed. (Reporters Li Heng and Gu Tiancheng)