Chongqing- After the first Chongqing-Ukraine COVID-19 prevention and control webinar was held on March 24, Chongqing and Ukraine held the second COVID-19 prevention and control webinar on the request of the Ministry of Health in Ukraine on April 21. Prevention and control of the pandemic were shared and exchanged in a more detailed and targeted manner. Wang Wen, deputy director of the Chongqing's Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, presided over the meeting.

At the webinar, Zhou Lin, deputy director of the Chongqing's Municipal Health Commission, said that as of 24:00 on April 20, the city had no new confirmed cases for 56 consecutive days, and a total of 579 confirmed cases (including three imported cases) were reported in COVID-19 pandemic. Five hundred seventy cases were discharged from hospital and six deaths, and the cure rate reached 98.44%.

Zhou Lin said that Chongqing's pandemic prevention and control has three main measures: building an effective joint defense and joint control command system; controlling the source of infection to achieve "four early" (early detection, early report, early isolation, early treatment); and medical care with full resources.

Medical experts from the First Affiliated Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University's CDM in the fields of disease control, respiration, critical illness, infection, obstetrics, etc. will provide medical strategy and experience regard to the situation in Ukraine, regarding the pregnant women's nursing strategy, a plasma treatment plan of COVID-19 concerned by Ukraine Medical personnel protection, shifts, nucleic acid detection, and other issues were exchanged and shared in detail. Ukrainian experts spoke highly of China's achievements in epidemic prevention and control and thanked Chongqing's epidemic prevention experts for their selfless sharing.

According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, as of 9 a.m., local time on April 21, 415, new cases of COVID-19 were newly confirmed in Ukraine within 24 hours, with a total of 6125 confirmed cases, 161 deaths and 367 cured cases. Due to the development of the pandemic, Ukraine has declared an emergency in the country on March 25, which lasted until April 24.