China’s Jilin province was “in a last ditch battle” against COVID-19, according to a senior Communist Party official, as the northeastern region bordering North Korea and Russia accounted for three-quarters of China’s total new cases on Wednesday. Authorities have called for blanket testing Jilin, with provincial Communist Party secretary Jing Junhai urging health departments to ensure “not a single person is missed”, the official Jilin Daily newspaper reported. Jilin registered 1,456 new symptomatic COVID-19 community transmissions on March. 15, while new cases totalled 1,860 nationwide, National Health Commission (NHC) data showed. Though Jilin’s infections had halved compared to a day earlier, it was still over a thousand for a fourth consecutive […]