Zhang Wenhong gave a video screenshot at the meeting

　　China News Service, Guangzhou, December 6 (Reporter Minjie Cai) The 2021 Congdu International Forum is being held in Guangzhou.

Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, said in a video at the meeting that now the new crown pneumonia epidemic is spreading and global prevention and control are difficult.

The current vaccination situation in most countries is not satisfactory.

With the advent of the mutant strain of the new coronavirus, Omi Keron, some countries have established relatively good immune barriers, and now they feel that their future is extremely uncertain.

How to respond to the epidemic through global collaboration is the focus of future work, and the addition of more global forces is the key to defeating the epidemic.

　　Zhang Wenhong said that some time ago, the establishment of the global immune barrier has been well improved. In countries where vaccination has been very successful, the epidemic was once well controlled, and the mortality rate has also been drastically reduced.

　　"We used to think that the time for the world to reopen has arrived, but now with the emergence of mutant viruses, our worries about countries that have not established vaccine barriers have become more serious than before." Zhang Wenhong said that so far, the world The proportion of countries that truly receive vaccination does not exceed a quarter. In most countries, the immune barrier has not been established.

　　"Especially in the last few days, the Omi Keron mutant strain has caused the epidemic to rise again, causing global panic. Many countries have closed their borders because of this. The more at this time, the more we need to gather wisdom to overcome this. A major public health problem that is very difficult to deal with." Zhang Wenhong said.

　　"In the future, how we can improve our global vaccine barrier through global collaboration? I think it will be very important to control this new crown epidemic." Zhang Wenhong said that China has made great efforts in this area and believes that it will be in the future. More countries work together to deal with this virus.

Now we need to gather more global forces, based on science, based on unity, to overcome this epidemic together.

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