COVID-19 measures aimed at minimizing impact on people's lives

China will strive to make its COVID-19 containment measures more scientific and targeted to minimize the impact on people's lives and achieve most outcomes at minimal cost, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference said on Friday.

Interviewed via video link, Wu Hao, a member of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC and a professor of public health at Capital Medical University in Beijing, said the country will pay close attention to the latest epidemic developments and dynamically adjust prevention and control measures to ensure people's lives and production.

Wu, who has worked on the front lines at 20 COVID-19 outbreaks in 10 provincial-level regions, said the "dynamic zero-infections policy" is the most effective and responsible way to handle an epidemic.

The reasons China has been able to successfully implement the policy include: strong Party leadership; support, cooperation and understanding from the people; overall national strength; and the country's scientific and technological development, he said.

Epidemic prevention and control at the community level is the key to China's epidemic containment measures and it reflects the country's institutional and cultural strength, Wu said.

In each outbreak, the most important principal for epidemic containment work is to make people and their lives the top priority, and the country has constantly adjusted its epidemic prevention and control measures based on new experience gained, he added.