(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) International Review: The murmur is endless, the global war epidemic needs "compass"
China News Agency, Beijing, April 20th, Title: International Review: The murmur is still on, the global war epidemic needs a "compass"
China News Agency reporter Liu Xu
The epidemic situation of new coronary pneumonia continues to spread globally, which poses a huge challenge to global public health security. According to real-time epidemic data of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 9:00 on April 20, Beijing time, the cumulative number of new cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world has exceeded 2.4 million, and the cumulative deaths have exceeded 160,000.
On April 17, local time, during the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, many portraits of medical workers were erected on the west lawn of the US Capitol, calling for personal protective equipment for medical care. The picture shows citizens taking pictures on the photos.
As countries stepped up their fight against the epidemic, there were also some murmurs in the field of international public opinion that politicized the epidemic and stigmatized other countries by the epidemic. A small number of Western politicians insisted on sticking to the old, insisting on linking the virus and the disease it caused to a certain place, and even clamored for the "absent" and "claim" ridiculous arguments against China; China's sharing of experience in anti-epidemic disease, assistance to other countries, and the call for global anti-epidemic efforts are engaged in "image propaganda", trying to link anti-epidemic cooperation with politics, accusing China of conspiracy.
Such a voice is by no means mainstream. After all, in this global epidemic, every country is a victim. Any stigmatized words and deeds will affect the confidence of solidarity and cooperation in the global emergency, and thus are opposed by the international community.
The Director General of the World Health Organization Tan Desai recently issued a warning: "When there is a crack in the country and the international community, the virus will succeed", causing more deaths. In the face of the current severe situation, using the epidemic to carry out political attacks is like playing with fire, "Please Isolate the epidemic from politics. "
Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa in the United States, pointed out: "The public health problem of the New Coronary Pneumonia Outbreak should not be politicized. Where exactly the New Coronavirus originated has yet to be scientifically verified." The journal "Nature" wrote in an editorial: "It is an irresponsible act to insist on associating a virus and the disease it causes with a place, and it needs to be stopped immediately."
Eduardo Klinger, an academician of the Dominican Academy of Sciences, recently published an article in the media, slamming conspiracy theorists “wo n’t even consider whether this idea is reasonable and logical”, “racism and xenophobia drive them to a national pole. The stigma is the ideological bias.
Faced with these remarks that attempted to pass on their own responsibility to cope with the epidemic and distorted the facts, the international community issued a rational voice, calling on all parties to continue to unite and cooperate so as not to delay the opportunity to fight the epidemic and reduce the joint fighting capacity.
At the end of last month, the leaders of the G20 held a special summit on the response to the new coronary pneumonia. The statement of the "G20 Leaders' Special Summit on the Response to the New Crown Pneumonia" issued after the meeting clearly stated: Close ties and vulnerability. Viruses know no borders, and they need to adopt a spirit of solidarity and adopt transparent, powerful, coordinated, large-scale, science-based global action to fight the epidemic. "
In early April, more than 230 important political parties and international organizations of political parties in more than 110 countries in the world jointly issued a common appeal: oppose the politicization of public health issues, resist the stigmatization of other countries by the epidemic, and discriminate against words and deeds that discriminate against specific countries, regions and nations . The common appeal emphasizes that viruses have no borders and that human destiny is common. No country can be alone. The more difficult it is, the more support and help it has to each other.
UN Secretary General Guterres said in a video speech on the 14th that the world is fighting the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, and people around the world are looking for answers that can help save countless lives, but worldwide, misinformation is spreading False information floods people's side, insults and denigrates people and different groups. Guterres emphasized that we need to trust each other and regard mutual respect as a "compass" for the world to overcome this difficulty. "Let us unite and refuse lies and unreasonable heresies."
In the process of responding to this global public health crisis, the international community has more profoundly recognized that human society is a community of shared destiny. In the face of the new crown epidemic that is raging without borders, the urgent task for all countries is to build a response with a global perspective Plan to unite and cooperate in the fight against epidemics.
"Infectious diseases in one corner of the world are likely to trigger the resurgence of epidemics in other regions, and all this is just a matter of time; as long as there is a new crown virus somewhere, people around the world will be threatened." Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently wrote an appeal that countries need a global approach to fight disease.
As Gates said, “After all, it ’s not just common values and social relationships that connect humans. We are biologically interrelated, and each of you and us are connected by a network of invisible viruses. Health is connected. In this epidemic, each of us is in solidarity. When fighting the epidemic, we must also work together. "(End)