Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19’s foreign expert panel, said the WHO has been on the ground in Wuhan and has worked closely with the Chinese government.
Gene-sequencing of 104 novel coronavirus samples collected from different locations shows the virus has not mutated, a top Chinese expert told a news conference on Monday.
The biggest challenge in combating the novel coronavirus outbreak right now is complacency as confirmed cases decline, a World Health Organization expert said on Monday.
In an address to global reporters and public health officials in Beijing on Monday evening, Bruce Aylward, a top Canadian epidemiologist who recently headed up the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19, spelled out the impact of aggressive containment measures adopted by the Chinese government and alerted the world to act fast and keep the epidemic under control.
Chang Zheng, 49, gets up at 6 am each morning to make lianggao, a sweetmeat with two layers of sticky rice and red bean paste in the middle. Before 7:30 am, more than 50 kilograms of lianggao are ready for sale.
If you're not in the infected areas, that might be slight overkill. Since the virus is primarily spread through the air and respiratory droplets, the likelihood of directly coming into contact with it is much lower.
By Hu Dongmei in Yinchuan and Zheng Caixiong in Guangzhou
Feb 24, 2020
A garment company in Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is now producing more than 2,000 protective gowns a day afteraltering its production lines that originally produced high-end Western suitson Feb 10.
After the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic broke out, the Wuhan Erqi Road police station set up a youth brigade to help transfer patients and work on community disease control and prevention. The brigade has 34 policemen and auxiliary police, all from the post-1990 generation and devoted to fighting the epidemic.
To help contain the novel coronavirus, millions across China have been working from home for several weeks. Click to find out who is working online and how they do their jobs via the internet.
Didi driver Wang Li decided to remain in Wuhan from the first day of the Spring Festival Holiday, serving people who need a ride in the epidemic-hit city. The 30-year-old is from Mianzhu in Southwest China's Sichuan province and survived the devastating earthquake. She came to work in Wuhan in 2018 and chose to join the battle with her second hometown against the virus. ''I must fight for the city I love,'' she said.
Angelo Castagneto, an Ecuadorian in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, has composed a melody Hope for Chinese. He wishes China can maintain its hope in fighting the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP).
Ordinary Heroes, a short documentary about how Shanghai medical professionals have been supporting the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Hu-bei province was released by the China Democratic League on Feb 15.
The first group of Hong Kong residents who were quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan for about two weeks landed at Hong Kong International Airport via a chartered flight at about 8:50 am on Thursday. The 106 people were then sent to Chun Yeung Estate in Fo Tan for a two-week quarantine as precaution against the novel coronavirus.
Zhang Jixian was one of the first doctors who sounded the alarm for the imminent novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak. She noticed the problem when treating patients and insisted on reporting it to her superiors. Since the outbreak, she's been fighting on the front line.
Many foreigners continue to live and work in Beijing, as China has adopted stringent measures to combat the novel coronavirus. Have their lives been affected by the epidemic? How do they buy daily necessities? Are all their favorite shops and supermarkets still open as usual? Watch the video.
