(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Zhang Wenhong: The global epidemic is still under tension. The key to China’s experience lies in national cooperation and scientific prevention and control
Chinanews.com, Guiyang, August 11 (Reporter Liu Peng) "The global prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still in a state of tension. China is currently achieving initial results. The key is to adopt more decisive measures in the early stage, national cooperation and scientific prevention and control." Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University and leader of the Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Medical Treatment Expert Team, said this when talking about the global epidemic prevention and control situation.
On the 11th, Zhang Wenhong came to Guiyang, Guizhou, to share China's anti-epidemic experience, and gave a lecture on the theme of "Improving Front-line Early Warning Capabilities, Precautions against New Crowns". In the meantime, Zhang Wenhong accepted an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com.
As of August 10, Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide has exceeded 20 million, and the cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 730,000. The number of newly discovered confirmed cases and the number of deaths are still on the rise globally. "The virus has spread steadily at the global level." Zhang Wenhong said that the global epidemic prevention and control is still under tension, and the epidemic in China is basically under control.
The picture shows Zhang Wenhong giving a lecture on epidemic prevention and control in Guiyang. Photo by Qu Honglun
Speaking of China’s experience in epidemic prevention and control, Zhang Wenhong shared that more decisive measures were taken in the early stage of the epidemic. The government and communities quickly built a fortress of precision prevention and control. Medical staff, police, couriers, and ordinary people cooperated with all the people. Participate in prevention and control. At the same time, the use of scientific prevention and control of the epidemic and the rapid expansion of nucleic acid testing have allowed China to control the epidemic before the further spread of the virus.
In response to the current concerns about the development and production of new coronary pneumonia vaccines, Zhang Wenhong responded that at present, China's vaccine research and development work is basically in the first phalanx globally, and about 6 of the world has entered the final stage of clinical research. China accounts for three vaccines.
It takes time for a virus vaccine to go from research and development to mass production to every citizen can be vaccinated. Zhang Wenhong suggested that the most important thing at present is to carry out normal prevention and control. For the public, wearing a good mask is the key.
At present, China has opened up cross-provincial tourism. It is the summer vacation, and China's tourism industry may usher in a wave of peaks. Zhang Wenhong said that the risk of opening up cross-provincial tourism is not high. Recently, the newly discovered confirmed cases in Beijing Xinfadi, Dalian, and Urumqi, Xinjiang have nothing to do with tourism.
Of course, Zhang Wenhong reminded once again that the epidemic is not over yet, and prevention and control work must be the top priority while opening tourism in various places. Full preparations must be made, especially the early warning of hospitals and fever clinics. People should also be vigilant against fever and respiratory symptoms, and insist on wearing masks in densely populated places.
Zhang Wenhong emphasized that the new crown pneumonia virus has different characteristics from the previous SARS coronavirus. There are a large number of asymptomatic carriers of the new crown pneumonia virus. The prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia virus cannot be simply through body temperature and "green code" prevention and control. We must continue to strengthen testing. Ability to greatly improve early warning capabilities and rapid detection capabilities after an outbreak. (Finish)