South China's border region Guangxi has taken a series of epidemic control measures to prevent the importation of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, a local health official said Monday.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which shares a 1,020-km-long border with Vietnam, has stepped up border control, border patrols and cracked down on illegal border entries, said Pang Jun, a regional health commission official, at a press conference of the State Council's inter-agency task force for COVID-19 epidemic response.
Among the measures, the region has shut down seven of its nine points of entry, he noted.
At the same time, the region has put in place a mechanism of regular communication and coordination with Vietnam's border provinces for epidemic control, Pang said.
