The National Health Commission issued the ``Statistical Bulletin on the Development of China's Health Care Services in 2020'', which reported 87,071 cases of COVID-19


  last year.

  On July 13, the Department of Planning, Development and Information Technology of the National Health Commission released the "Statistical Bulletin on the Development of my country's Health Services in 2020", introducing the number of cases of new crowns, the number of various infectious diseases, and health expenditures in my country last year.

  The reporter found that in 2020, the incidence of many infectious diseases, including viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and AIDS, has dropped significantly compared to 2019. Academician Zhong Nanshan has previously stated that the preventive measures against the new crown are equally effective for other infectious diseases.

  Last year, 4634 people in my country died of new coronary pneumonia

  On January 20, 2020, the National Health Commission issued an announcement that the new type of coronavirus pneumonia will be included in Class B infectious diseases and managed in accordance with Class A infectious diseases. The number of infectious diseases in my country has increased to 40.

  According to statistics, in 2020, 2.67 million cases of Class A and Class B infectious diseases were reported nationwide, and 26,000 deaths were reported.

The top 5 reported incidences are viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea and new coronavirus pneumonia, accounting for 92.2% of the total reported incidences of Class A and B infectious diseases.

The top five reported deaths are AIDS, new coronavirus pneumonia, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and rabies, accounting for 99.5% of the total reported deaths from Class A and B infectious diseases.

  Last year, the number of reported cases of new coronavirus pneumonia in my country was 87,071 and 4,634 deaths.

New coronary pneumonia data are the clinically diagnosed cases and laboratory confirmed cases (including foreign nationals and imported cases from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao) based on the report date of the reported cases in the year.

  The reporter found from the WHO official website that as of December 28 last year, there were 845,585,79 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide and 1,907,936 deaths.

In terms of the number of morbidities and deaths, countries with more severe epidemics include the United States, India, Brazil, and Russia.

As of December 31 last year, 19,513,331 cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in the United States and 345,398 deaths; 10,266,674 cases were confirmed in India, and 148,738 deaths.

  The incidence of many infectious diseases has dropped significantly

  The reporter found that in the past year, the incidence of many infectious diseases has dropped significantly.

  The number of viral hepatitis cases in 2019 was 1,286,691, and 1,318,781 cases in 2020, a decrease of 147910 cases; the number of tuberculosis cases was 775,764 in 2019, and 670,538 cases in 2020, a decrease of 105,226; The number of dengue fever cases in 2019 was 22,188 For example, there are 778 cases in 2020, a decrease of 21410 cases.

  Among them, viral hepatitis is mainly transmitted through the digestive tract, blood and body fluids; tuberculosis can be transmitted through the respiratory tract or the digestive tract.

Dengue fever is transmitted by mosquito vectors. According to an infectious disease expert, most dengue fever in my country is imported from abroad.

  The incidence of AIDS has also dropped significantly, from 71,204 cases in 2019 to 62,167 cases in 2020.

The reporter inquired about my country's 10 statistical bulletins from 2011 to 2020. In the first 9 years, the number of reported cases of AIDS has shown an increasing trend. 2020 is the first year in 10 years when the number of reported cases of AIDS has decreased.

  Some regions also showed the same changes.

Compared with 2019, the reported incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in Beijing dropped by 67.9%, the lowest in the past five years.

  According to media reports, in August last year, Zhong Nanshan pointed out at a professional forum that China has achieved another effect while fighting the new crown epidemic, and the number of all infectious diseases has fallen sharply.

From January to July 2020, the total number of statutory 40 types of infection cases totaled 3,744,135, a decrease of 25% over the same period in the previous three years (2017-2019).

This shows that the preventive measures against the new crown are also effective for other infectious diseases.

  Total health expenditure reached 7,230.64 billion yuan

  The total national health expenditure has increased compared to 2019.

  The total national health expenditure in 2020 is expected to reach 7,230.64 billion yuan, of which: government health expenditure is 219.883 billion yuan (accounting for 30.4%), social health expenditure is 3,025.28 billion yuan (accounting for 41.8%), and personal health expenditure is 2005.53 billion yuan (accounting for 27.7%).

The total per capita health expenditure is 5146.4 yuan.

  In comparison, my country’s total health expenditure in 2019 was 658.414 billion yuan, of which government health expenditure was 1801.70 billion yuan (27.36%), social health expenditure was 2915.06 billion yuan (44.27%), and personal health cash expenditure was 1.867.39 billion yuan (27.36%). 28.36%).

The total per capita health expenditure is 4702.8 yuan.

  In 2020, my country's total health expenditure accounted for 7.12% of GDP. This ratio was 6.64% in 2019, 6.43% in 2018, and 6.36% in 2017.

  Beijing News reporter Dai Xuan