(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) International Review: New Crown Pneumonia Sounds Global Alert China Should Not Be Lived Up to Pay Price

China News Agency, Beijing, February 25th: New crown pneumonia raises global alert, China should not be disappointed to pay the price

China News Agency reporter Liu Xu Bo Wenwen

The World Health Organization ’s new crown pneumonia epidemic report released on the 24th shows that there are currently 79,331 confirmed cases and 2,618 deaths worldwide. Cases outside China have increased significantly in the past few days. Experts from the World Health Organization have called for countries to refer to China's experience in prevention and control when the risk of the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic emerges, seize the window of epidemic prevention, and work together to tackle the virus challenge.

According to publicly reported data, as of 17:00 Beijing time on the 25th, a total of 2,505 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia and 33 deaths have been reported in 33 countries and regions outside China, especially in Italy, Iran, Japan and South Korea. Growth, voices of concern in the international community: Will the epidemic spread globally? Will global epidemic prevention work get out of control?

Looking back a month ago, China faced a similar dilemma: the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan has continued to spread. This is an epidemic caused by a new type of coronavirus. There is no ready-made diagnosis and treatment plan, no specific medicine, everything must be explored.

Faced with this new and spreading disease, the Chinese government has decisively adopted a series of open, transparent, efficient and responsible epidemic prevention measures, some of which are even more stringent than WHO's requirements: Including new crown pneumonia in B Infectious diseases and Category A measures are strictly managed; 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities have successively initiated first-level responses to major public health emergencies; Hubei Province, especially Wuhan, has implemented comprehensive and strict control over the outflow of personnel; and quickly shared some of the entire virus strains with countries around the world Genomic sequence, successfully developed rapid detection kit, and strive to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the world ...

On the 24th, after concluding the 9-day study tour to China, Bruce Elward, the foreign leader of the China-WHO Joint New Expert Pneumonia Expert Expedition and senior consultant of the WHO Director General, commented, In terms of the epidemic, China ’s method has proved to be successful. ”The inspection team believes that China has taken unprecedented public health responses to achieve significant results in slowing the spread of the epidemic and blocking the human-to-human transmission of the virus, which has been avoided or at least postponed Hundreds of thousands of new crown pneumonia cases.

The simplest and most straightforward way to explain this is the data:

Data from the National Health and Medical Commission of China show that from 04:00 to 24:00 on February 24, there were 508 new confirmed cases in China, and only 9 new confirmed cases outside Hubei. At the same time, new cases in 23 provinces achieved zero growth on February 24.

"When I first arrived in China two weeks ago, there were probably more than 2,000 newly reported confirmed cases each day." Elward said, "When the joint inspection mission ended its mission, the confirmed cases were realized within two weeks. It ’s a decline of 80%. Such a decline in data is real. In this epidemic prevention process, China has shown amazing capabilities to the world. "

China's epidemic prevention measures have brought hope, courage and confidence to all countries, proving that the virus is manageable and curable. At the same time, at the cost of huge economic losses, China has secured a window of control for the world and slowed down the spread of the virus to the rest of the world.

Tan Desai recently publicly pointed out that the measures taken by China and other countries have won rare opportunities for us to curb the spread of the virus, and the "window of opportunity" to control the spread of the epidemic still exists. But Tendsee emphasized that this window is narrowing. "The epidemic may develop in any direction." Only by seizing the "window of opportunity" can we reverse the predicament and avoid a serious crisis.

At the media briefing on the 24th, Ted Tsai said that the virus is a common threat, and we can only overcome it if we face it together. "We must not look back in the future and regret our failure to take full advantage of the window of opportunity now available." If we are united, if countries, regions and global health institutions, the media, the private sector and people around the world work together Cooperation will form a huge collective force. "Single-handed, we must lose. Undivided, we can win."

In the face of a rapidly spreading epidemic and a constantly tightening "window of opportunity", time is life and speed is hope. The effectiveness of China's efforts has been demonstrated, and the price paid by the Chinese should not be disappointed. In the face of common enemies, countries should adhere to the concept of a community of shared future for mankind, closely communicate and collaborate, strengthen joint prevention and control, and take appropriate and necessary measures to effectively prevent the transnational spread of epidemics and jointly safeguard regional and global public health security. (Finish)