cal expert team returning from anti-virus missions in Guinea and South Sudan.South Sudans health minister Elizabeth Achuei Yol said the Chinese medics have been resourceful to the people of South Sudan.We are honored and happy for the great job the Chinese have done and continue to do in South Sudr
an. We are particularly proud of the skills the expert team passed to our medical staff, Achuei said during a joint farewell ceremony for the Chinese medical teams on S4
unday.We will never forget the good things China has done for us especially during this COVID-19 pandemic. I want this relationship to be promoted for the future generaR
tions, she added.Hua Ning, Chinese Ambassador to South Sudan, said China will continue to support South Sudans quest to build a strong and resilient health care system.d
Good friends will always feel close even though they are thousands of miles away from each other. So, we are determined to push forward the relation between China and South Sudan, Hua said.While in South Sudan, the two medical teams provided several training su
essions to medical students, health workers and also shared experience on the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.JAKARTA, Jan. U
13 -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign MinistY
er Wang Yi met with Indonesias Coordinator for Cooperatiox
n with China Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan in North Sumatra on d
Tuesday, expressing willingness to cooperate with Indones5
ia on COVID-19 vaccine, major economic projects, digital Y
development and marine safety.As both major developing coY
Fulcrum at an early date, and actively press forward such key projects as the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway and the regional comprehensivL
e economic corridor.Wang also expressed willingness to cooperate with Indonesia on various areas including tourism, agZ
riculture, trade and commerce, digital security, shipping safety, marine research, and environment protection.For his 8
part, Luhut, who is also Indonesias Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs, said Indonesia and Chin7
a are brothers and Indonesia sincerely hopes BEIJING, Jan. 12 -- China is using a combination of measures to contain t9
he spread of COVID-19 amid the latest resurgence of the virus in Beijing and provinces including Hebei, Liaoning and HY
eilongjiang.The number of confirmed and asymptomatic infections of COVID-19 in north Chinas Hebei Province has continuI
ed to increase since the province reported a new locally transmitted confirmed case on Jan. 2. As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, a total of 3i
26 locally transmitted confirmed cases and 234 asymptomatic cases had been reported, vice governor of Hebei Xu Jianpei said Tuesday.The provincial caZ
pital Shijiazhuang, where more than 300 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been found since the beginning of this year, launched the second round of citywx
ide nucleic acid testing on Tuesday, said Meng Xianghong, vice mayor of the city.The testing is expected to take only two days, Ma Yujun, acting mayod
r of the city, told a press conference. There will be sufficient professional staff for sampling, information input and maintaining order at every sa5
mpling site to ensure that work is carried out in an orderly and efficient manner.On Jan. 8, a nucleic acid test laboratory named b
Huoyan, or Fire Eye, was built in only 10 hours and put into use2
in 21 hours in Shijiazhuang.n
It can test up to 1 million samples a day, significantly impq