SZ shares COVID-19 experience with Barcelona

Writer: Han XImin  |  Editor: Holly Wang  |  From: Shenzhen Daily 

Shenzhen government officials and medical experts shared their experiences covering 20 issues with their counterparts in Barcelona, Spain via a video conference Tuesday. Shenzhen Special Zone Daily

Shenzhen government officials and medical experts shared their experiences covering 20 issues including social governance, material guarantees, contingent measures, medical treatment and personal precautions with their counterparts in Barcelona, Spain, in a video conference Tuesday.

To offer even more help to the sister city of Shenzhen at this special time, the city is also preparing to send an English-language first-hand information packet that details the city’s experience on COVID-19 treatment, stay-at-home isolation, and prevention and control of the disease to Barcelona.

During the video conference, Wang Gang, deputy secretary general of the Shenzhen government, Luo Lexuan, head of Shenzhen’s health commission, and market supervision and emergency management officials gave detailed answers to questions on measures for COVID-19 prevention and control within communities, ways to solve shortages of medical staff, mental health relating to the pandemic, and how to ensure food supplies for people who were kept isolated at home.

“The city uses administrative, technical, community management and publicity methods to ensure residents follow the rules on COVID-19 prevention and control. At the same time, property management, social organizations and volunteers were mobilized to provide delivery services for people being quarantined at home. Every citizen is included in the precision management system of the city,” the conference was told.

By Tuesday, Spain had confirmed more than 140,000 cases, becoming the country with the most cases in the European Union.

This was the second time for the city to share its experience with a sister city. The first was a video conference with Poznan, Poland, on March 26.

In addition to the first two cities, Brisbane in Australia and Kazan in Russia also hope to have COVID-19 experience exchanges with Shenzhen.

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Shenzhen has received 41,300 masks, 500 pieces of preventative clothing and 10,000 medical gloves from sister cities.