Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, has essentially cut off the community transmission of COVID-19, local authorities said on Monday.
The Tibet autonomous region announced on Monday solid progress in reaching zero COVID-19 transmission at the community level in five of its seven prefecture-level cities, while COVID-19 infections have sprung up in other regions across the country, mainly in Sichuan and Hebei provinces and Tianjin.
The Tibet autonomous region has been making solid progress in its battle against the latest COVID-19 outbreak, with the region's five prefecture-level cities, including Nyingchi, Chamdo, Nagchu, Lhokha, and Ngari, realizing zero COVID-19 transmission status at the community level as of 4 pm on Sunday.
The region reported 37 locally confirmed cases and 521 asymptomatic carriers on Wednesday. Of them, 150 infections were detected at the community level, indicating that community transmission has not yet been cut off.
Dawa Gyaltsen struggled to hide his excitement when recalling details of his face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping, even though it was more than a year since the encounter took place.
The Tibet autonomous region reported 32 locally confirmed COVID-19 cases and 946 asymptomatic carriers between Thursday and 2 pm Friday, health authorities said at a news briefing in Lhasa on Friday.
Physicians at the dental department of the People's Hospital in the Tibet autonomous region are grateful for the contributions made by Chen Li, an Aid-Tibet physician, and for the changes he has ushered in over the past two years.
Since 2015, hospital departments in relatively developed municipalities and provinces in China have paired up with their counterparts in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region to provide better medical services to residents on the plateau.
