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China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement

BACKGROUND: The emerging infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), poses a serious threat in China and worldwide. Challenged by this serious situation, China has taken many measures to contain its transmission. Thi...

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Autores principales: Xu, Tie-Long, Ao, Mei-Ying, Zhou, Xu, Zhu, Wei-Feng, Nie, He-Yun, Fang, Jian-He, Sun, Xin, Zheng, Bin, Chen, Xiao-Fan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32814591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00716-0
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author Xu, Tie-Long
Ao, Mei-Ying
Zhou, Xu
Zhu, Wei-Feng
Nie, He-Yun
Fang, Jian-He
Sun, Xin
Zheng, Bin
Chen, Xiao-Fan
author_facet Xu, Tie-Long
Ao, Mei-Ying
Zhou, Xu
Zhu, Wei-Feng
Nie, He-Yun
Fang, Jian-He
Sun, Xin
Zheng, Bin
Chen, Xiao-Fan
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description BACKGROUND: The emerging infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), poses a serious threat in China and worldwide. Challenged by this serious situation, China has taken many measures to contain its transmission. This study aims to systematically review and record these special and effective practices, in hope of benefiting for fighting against the ongoing worldwide pandemic. METHODS: The measures taken by the governments was tracked and sorted on a daily basis from the websites of governmental authorities (e.g. National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China). And the measures were reviewed and summarized by categorizations, figures and tables, showing an ever-changing process of combating with an emerging infectious disease. The population shift levels, daily local new diagnosed cases, daily mortality and daily local new cured cases were used for measuring the effect of the measures. RESULTS: The practices could be categorized into active case surveillance, rapid case diagnosis and management, strict follow-up and quarantine of persons with close contacts, and issuance of guidance to help the public understand and adhere to control measures, plus prompt and effective high-level policy decision, complete activation of the public health system, and full involvement of the society. Along with the measures, the population shift levels, daily local new diagnosed cases, and mortality were decreased, and the daily local new cured cases were increased in China. CONCLUSIONS: China’s practices are effective in controlling transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Considering newly occurred situations (e.g. imported cases, work resumption), the control measures may be adjusted.
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spelling pubmed-74352242020-08-19 China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement Xu, Tie-Long Ao, Mei-Ying Zhou, Xu Zhu, Wei-Feng Nie, He-Yun Fang, Jian-He Sun, Xin Zheng, Bin Chen, Xiao-Fan Infect Dis Poverty Short Report BACKGROUND: The emerging infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), poses a serious threat in China and worldwide. Challenged by this serious situation, China has taken many measures to contain its transmission. This study aims to systematically review and record these special and effective practices, in hope of benefiting for fighting against the ongoing worldwide pandemic. METHODS: The measures taken by the governments was tracked and sorted on a daily basis from the websites of governmental authorities (e.g. National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China). And the measures were reviewed and summarized by categorizations, figures and tables, showing an ever-changing process of combating with an emerging infectious disease. The population shift levels, daily local new diagnosed cases, daily mortality and daily local new cured cases were used for measuring the effect of the measures. RESULTS: The practices could be categorized into active case surveillance, rapid case diagnosis and management, strict follow-up and quarantine of persons with close contacts, and issuance of guidance to help the public understand and adhere to control measures, plus prompt and effective high-level policy decision, complete activation of the public health system, and full involvement of the society. Along with the measures, the population shift levels, daily local new diagnosed cases, and mortality were decreased, and the daily local new cured cases were increased in China. CONCLUSIONS: China’s practices are effective in controlling transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Considering newly occurred situations (e.g. imported cases, work resumption), the control measures may be adjusted. BioMed Central 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7435224/ /pubmed/32814591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00716-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Xu, Tie-Long
Ao, Mei-Ying
Zhou, Xu
Zhu, Wei-Feng
Nie, He-Yun
Fang, Jian-He
Sun, Xin
Zheng, Bin
Chen, Xiao-Fan
China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title_full China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title_fullStr China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title_full_unstemmed China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title_short China’s practice to prevent and control COVID-19 in the context of large population movement
title_sort china’s practice to prevent and control covid-19 in the context of large population movement
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32814591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00716-0
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