Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan called for more decisive, precise, and effective measures in epidemic prevention and control during an inspection tour in northeast China's Jilin Province on Wednesday night. 

Sun is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

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The inspector stressed the need to speed up screening, testing, quarantine and treatment of COVID-19 patients and conduct thorough epidemiological investigations. 

The inspection team underlined the need to immediately improve nucleic acid testing capabilities and expand the testing range of people to ensure early detection, reporting, quarantine and treatment. 

Sun urged enhanced treatment for the patients combining traditional Chinese and western medicine, strengthened epidemic prevention and control in key areas and venues, and extra attention on key groups of vulnerable people and rigorous traffic control. 

She also demanded open and transparent COVID-19 reports, timely response to public concerns and better publicity on healthcare knowledge to further raise people's awareness of self-protection against the virus. 

Jilin Province reported two new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, local health authorities said Saturday.

By Friday, the province reported a total of 121 locally transmitted confirmed cases, including one death and 92 who had recovered and been discharged from hospitals. There are still 28 patients in hospitals.

(Cover: Community staff check a car at the entrance of a residential community in Chuanying District of Jilin City, northeast China's Jilin Province, May 15, 2020. /Xinhua)