Xi's command in China's battle against COVID-19
STORY: Xi's command in China's battle against COVID-19
DATELINE: Dec. 10, 2022
LENGTH: 00:06:02
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY/ECONOMY/HEALTH
STORYLINE:
The world has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly three years.
China, the most populous country in the world, encountered its hardest major public health emergency since the founding of New China in 1949.
A war of 1.4 billion people was declared to fight the virus.
And commanding the war is President Xi Jinping.
Xi's command in China's battle against COVID-19
PEOPLE FIRST, LIFE FIRST
Each and every life counts.
Ever since the epidemic began, Xi has put the health and safety of the Chinese people before everything else.
It was early 2020 in Shiyan, Hubei, a province hit hard by the pandemic.
A patient was rushed to hospital for COVID-19, his conditions serious. And he was 87 years old, an age vulnerable to the virus.
SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LUO JIE, National lawmaker from Hubei, President of Taihe Hospital in Shiyan
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