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Cities Step up Efforts to Contain Virus CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Tuesday, August 10, 2021 | 3 TOP NEWS Cities step YUNNAN Elephants up efforts to heading home after contain virus 17 months of Testing should be better organized to avoid infections, Jiangsu governor says wandering By YANG WANLI in Beijing By CANG WEI in Nanjing worker, who is being treated in and LI YINGQING in Kunming and ZHAO RUIXUE in Jinan hospital, defied instructions to government employees not to visit A herd of wild Asian elephants After 20 days of strict epidemic gambling houses. that has wandered Southwest containment measures, Nanjing, In Nanjing, a 2-year-old boy was China’s Yunnan province for more Jiangsu province, reported no new infected by his parents, who talked than 17 months appears to be COVID-19 cases on Sunday, city to contacts of infected people at a heading home to its traditional officials said. sample collection center in late July. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (center), chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, habitat in Xishuangbanna Many of Nanjing’s medium-risk Many officials in Yangzhou have takes a group photo with other officials at the launch ceremony for the screening of shows produced by the National Nature Reserve. areas for the virus have been down- been punished for failing to properly China Media Group. From left are Zheng Guoyue, deputy commander of the Chinese People’s Liberation At 8 pm on Sunday, the herd was graded to low risk, said Bao Yunhai, organize the taking of swab samples. Army Hong Kong Garrison; Zheng Yanxiong, head of the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the guided across a bridge over the an official at the Nanjing Informa- Lyu Xiuqin, 66, from Nanjing’s Central People’s Government in the HKSAR; Lam; Wang Songmiao, secretary-general of the Liaison Office Yuanjiang River, said Wan Yong, tion Office. “But many residents Nanyuan community, said she of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR; and Pan Yundong, deputy commissioner of the Office head of the Yunnan Forestry and are still under quarantine and the lined up for more than four hours of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the HKSAR. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Grassland Administration and city still faces great pressure to con- to take a nucleic acid test at a sam- also director of the management tain the virus,” he said at a news ple collection site when the city and control headquarters in conference on Monday. “We should began the first round of testing. charge of protecting the roaming continue to follow health protocols “There was no way to do social HK lines up TV shows on CPC history elephants. to protect ourselves,” he added. distancing in such a crowded place,” The elephants were on Monday Inside In Nanjing’s she said. “Thousands of people, approximately 26 kilometers from Lukou subdistrict, many not wearing masks, talked to By CHLOE XU in Hong Kong At a launch ceremony on Mon- Chief Shen Haixiong said in a vid- Mojiang county, Pu’er city, one of Editorial, health and social each other at the crowded collection and LI BINGCUN in Shenzhen day, Hong Kong Chief Executive eo speech that, besides Hong their major habitats in Yunnan page 9 workers, along with site. Though the situation improved Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Kong, the CMG productions will along with Xishuang banna Dai police officers, were greatly in the second, third and More historical dramas about the screening campaign is a per- also be broadcast overseas in 44 autonomous prefecture. on Monday busy disinfecting areas fourth rounds, I just feel lucky that the Communist Party of China fect opportunity for Hong Kong languages. “The elephants are monitored where patients and asymptomatic no infected people showed up at the will greet Hong Kong viewers as people to learn more about the Shen, also a vice-minister of the and kept away from residential carriers have been. Police obtained site in the first round.” local broadcasters line up several CPC’s history and to nurture their CPC Central Committee’s Publici- areas. The herd’s condition is sta- the keys to buildings and let in the Bao, from the information office, Chinese mainland productions in affection for the country. ty Department, said the CMG will ble and we will continue to guide workers, who took four hours on urged residents to keep a one-meter a citywide screening campaign, As a co-organizer, the Hong also deepen ties with Hong Kong them back to their habitat and average to disinfect each apartment. social distance, wash their hands which started on Monday. Kong Special Administrative society to better promote Hong guarantee both the safety of the Since July 20, Nanjing has frequently, wear masks in public Topping the list are a TV show Region government will provide Kong stories in the new era, and elephants and local residents,” reported 231 locally transmitted and avoid going to populated areas about troops of the Chinese Peo- strong support for the campaign, help bolster and elevate the city’s Wan said. cases, while neighboring Yang- or places with poor ventilation. ple’s Volunteers Army, who Lam said. global standing. Before the herd arrived at the zhou has registered 346. Yangzhou The Chinese mainland on Sun- entered Korea in October 1950 at The programs will be broadcast Wang Songmiao, secretary-gen- Yuan jiang River, forestry experts reported 38 new locally transmit- day reported 94 locally transmitted the request of the Democratic in Mandarin and Cantonese on eral of the Liaison Office of the spent days scoping 80 km of the ted cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. COVID-19 cases, including 41 in People’s Republic of Korea to TVB Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central People’s Government in riverbank before they chose a Yangzhou still has weaknesses Henan province, 38 in Jiangsu, 12 in resist US-led military forces on Cable Television, and the televi- the HKSAR, said the CMG has bridge on the 213 national highway in prevention measures, such as Hunan province and three in Hubei the peninsula, and a historical sion channel of Radio Television promoted various high-quality for the elephants to cross. some residents not wearing province, the National Health Com- drama about the decisive period Hong Kong. programs to Hong Kong residents The herd of 14 elephants, ranging masks and workers failing to mission said in its daily briefing on leading up to the defeat of the RTHK, Hong Kong’s only public over the years. in age and size, has traveled more check all QR health codes in pub- Monday. The 41 cases in Henan Kuomintang and the founding of broadcaster, will also launch Since the CPC marked its 100th than 500 km. lic places, officials from the city’s include 40 asymptomatic carriers. the People’s Republic of China in more programs covering major anniversary and the HKSAR its Sixteen elephants departed epidemic prevention and control Lou Yangsheng, Party secretary 1949. A 24-episode documentary topics such as national security, 24th anniversary on July 1, the Xishuang banna, but three of them headquarters said on Monday. of Henan, called for the province to on the CPC’s journey over the past the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Ma- address by President Xi Jinping at dropped out of the trek and two Wu Zhenglong, Jiangsu’s gover- swiftly contain the latest outbreak. century is also among the head- cao Greater Bay Area, and the the centennial celebration has calves were born en route. In July, nor, said stricter measures must “The coming two weeks, and espe- liners. nation’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021- resonated in Hong Kong, he said. a bull elephant that had broken be taken to curb the spread of the cially the coming week, are the cru- The campaign opened as the 25), she said. The screening event will boost away from the herd was sedated virus in Yangzhou. cial time to cope with this round of popular show The Age of Awaken- This is to better help residents Hong Kong residents’ national and returned to the nature When visiting a designated hos- the epidemic,” Lou said at the third ing, another historical production know more about the country’s identity and national pride, Wang reserve. pital for COVID-19 patients in Yang- special epidemic control meeting by the China Media Group cele- development and integrate the said. Heading north, the herd passed zhou on Sunday, he said that nucleic held on Sunday by the Party Com- brating the CPC’s centenary, won city into the country’s overall through Pu’er, Honghe and Yuxi. In acid testing procedures should be mittee of Henan. “The whole prov- wide acclaim since its debut in development, Lam said. Contact the writers at June, they reached the outskirts of better organized to prevent people ince needs to unite with confidence Hong Kong on July 12. CMG President and Editor-in- [email protected] Kunming, the provincial capital, from getting infected while swab and use the strictest standards and which has 8 million residents. samples are being taken. the most resolute measures to Local authorities deployed trucks, A government worker has been enclose, seal and extinguish the epi- workers and drones to monitor the suspended and is under investiga- demic by the end of this month.” Games: Beijing stresses anti-COVID measures elephants 24 hours a day, evacuated tion for infecting 23 people at a site roads for them to pass safely and where samples were being collect- Contact the writers at lured them away from populated ed for nucleic acid testing.
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