Baishan city officials inspect a vegetable farm in the city on March 16. [Photo/Baishan Release]

Daily necessities such as vegetables, fruit, meat and others in Baishan city – located in Northeast China's Jilin province – are currently sufficient and stable, and major markets have undertaken measures to ensure their continued supply, according to local media reports.

The province reported 742 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 415 local asymptomatic carriers on March 16.

As of that day, the construction of eight pop-up hospitals with 11,488 beds had been completed, while two temporary quarantine facilities with 662 isolation rooms had been established in the province.