Xi holds second meeting on coronavirus control in 10 days

Medical workers from Beijing’s ChinaJapan Friendship Hospital check on a patient infected with the novel coronavirus at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Monday. -ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY

BEIJING, Feb 4, China Daily/ANN -- President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, urged concrete efforts on Monday to race against time in combating the novel coronavirus and winning the battle of prevention and control of the contagion.

Xi made the remark while presiding over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing. It was the second such meeting in 10 days regarding the battle against the outbreak, with the number of cumulative confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland reaching 17,205, including 361 deaths as of Sunday.