The European Union's health and safety committee held an emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium today to coordinate the EU's response to the surge in cases after China decided to abandon the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic prevention policy.

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[Central News Agency] The European Union executive committee said that the European Union's health and safety committee held an emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium today to coordinate the EU's response to the surge in cases after China decided to abandon the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic prevention policy. road.

Soaring new cases of Covid-19 in China have depleted resources, putting hospitals and funeral homes under strain, Reuters reported.

The scale of the current outbreak and doubts about official Chinese data have prompted the United States, India, Italy, Taiwan and Japan to impose new entry rules for Chinese travelers.

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"The EU Health Security Committee is now meeting ... to discuss the outbreak in China and a possible coordinated response by Member States," the European Commission's health chief said in a tweet.

The meeting started in the morning and it was not clear when it would end, an executive committee official said.

The Health Safety Committee is composed of officials from the ministries of health of the 27 EU countries and is chaired by the Executive Committee.

During the peak of the epidemic in Europe, the Health Security Committee met frequently to coordinate policies among member states.

China suddenly changed course this month and began to abandon the world's most stringent anti-epidemic clearance policy and large-scale screening, preparing to fully open the economy hit by epidemic prevention restrictions next year.

Some international health experts pointed out that the zero-zero policy was lifted after widespread protests, allowing the spread of the epidemic in China to be largely uncontrolled, which may bring new cases into the millions every day.

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