Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong visits Foshan in Guangdong province as number of cases of mosquito-borne disease nears 5,000

Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong visited the southern city of Foshan in Guangdong province, urging the city to “strictly implement port health quarantine measures”, according to state news agency Xinhua on Friday.

During his trip to Guangdong, Liu told authorities to “improve prevention and control measures”, “effectively eliminate mosquitoes” and “cut off epidemic spread channels”.

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