China Daily has published a report on China's fight against Covid-19, to which FDDI visiting sholars Zamudio、Geeta Kochhar、Thomas DuBois have contributed their opinions.

Index

I. Universal consensus and public mobilization

• Timely release of information

• Dissemination of knowledge about prevention and control

• Public opinion guidance and support by mainstream media

• Universal participation with social cohesion

II. Social isolation and traffic control

• City lockdown and transport freeze in hardest-hit areas

• Differentiated traffic controls in less severe areas

• Tactics to prevent social gathering and cross-infections

• Community isolation basic line of defense

III. Screening, testing and dynamic monitoring

• Thorough screening at communities

• Improving virus testing

• Establishing a dynamic management system

• Intensifying epidemiological investigation

• Handling four groups for specific treatment

IV. Treatment plans and scientific research

• Dual goals of containing the source of infection and extension of treatment

• Better treatment plan and better treatment method

• The positive role of TCM in treatment through preemptive prevention, differentiated medication and multi-target intervention

V. Allocation of resources and guarantee of supplies

• Hubei gets national health workforce support

• Tremendous efforts made in medical supplies manufacturing

• Coordinated allocation of daily necessities

VI. Command system and strategic policies

• The top decision-making mechanism and fundamental strategies and policies

• Efficient execution mechanisms and comprehensive countermeasures

Glossary 

Experts' view

Acknowledgements 

Abstract

After the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese government gave top priority to the fight against the virus and put the people's lives and health before everything. President Xi Jinping has led the whole nation in a people's war of prevention and control against the virus. The wartime-like command mechanism and the strategies formulated in accordance with the ground reality offered strong leadership.

The Chinese government has upheld the principle of relying on the people and considered keeping them well informed as a key element to build consensus between the government and the public. Thanks to their social responsibility and trust in the government, the people took an active part in fighting the epidemic with a united will. The flexible and humanized social management and non-medical intervention featured by standard quarantine measures became key factors for containing the spread of the virus. The screening, test and supervision measures and epidemiological investigation proved to be crucial in cutting off the chain of virus transmission. By assorting hospitals based on utility, differentiating patients and the treatments they received based on their conditions, and integrating traditional Chinese medicine into therapy, China sharply decreased the infection rate and fatality rate, and at the same time raised the recovery rate. Meanwhile, China made full use of the advantage of its social system, allocated resources with high efficiency across the country and secured much-needed logistics support. With the whole natione's efforts to fight the battle of protecting Hubei and Wuhan, China has made initial achievements in prevention and control of the virus. Based on its own national situation, China has explored a set of practices and methods in the prevention and control of disease as well as the treatment of patients.

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