There’s a renewed focus on vaccination, particularly of the elderly, as even many centenarians have been getting jabbed. Plus, more financial support is pledged for businesses in trouble but for one Nanjing firm, the temptation for a quick buck through false claims was too much.
First, the latest numbers. Nanjing recorded just one more case of COVID yesterday, 18 April. Three locally-confirmed cases were cured and discharged from medical facilities, while two local asymptomatic infections were newly observed.
On to our COVID highlights for today. Up north in Beijing, the city has administered 559,000 doses of COVID vaccine in the past 2 weeks. Among them, 92,000 recipients are aged 60 or above and 33,000 are over the age of 80. Most heartwarming though, is the fact that the city saw more than 130 centenarians get the jab, of which the oldest is 110 years old.
Back nearer to home, many of us have been frustrated over not being able to order, or rather, have delivered, all our little luxuries that normally come from places such as Shanghai overnight.
But spare a thought for the companies who depend on such deliveries for their very livelihood, and those awaiting raw materials essential to their production that are presently held back at Nanjing’s city’s borders.
Hence, the top brass at the Provincial Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control held a meeting yesterday morning, reports PSA Nanjing (南京发布). Therein was noted it is necessary to ensure smooth logistics that can help enterprises open up the supply chain channels of the industrial chain.
In addition, there should be fully implemented various policies to help enterprises at all levels, increase financial and credit support, and also to ensure that such support reaches enterprises directly.
Finally, a Nanjing company has found itself in hot water after making quite the incredible claim of its air purifiers.
Nanjing Aiyang Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (南京艾氧环保科技有限公司) recently published advertisements on its official WeChat account which claimed their air purifiers are able to kill the COVID virus with an efficiency of 99.97 percent.
The local market supervision bureau has ordered the company to decease in publishing the advertisements and has slapped it with a fine of ¥100,000.
