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Editor, Senior Moderator
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2020 Mar 28;41(0):E029. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200216-00108. [Epub ahead of print]
[Challenges to prevent and control the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19)].
[Article in Chinese; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher]
Liu X[SUP]1[/SUP], Na RS[SUP]1[/SUP], Bi ZQ[SUP]2[/SUP].
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Abstract
in English, Chinese
An outbreak of severe pneumonia of unknown cause was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The infectious virus was soon identified and named as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov). The name of the coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) was given by WHO on 11 February 2020. It has so far caused about 118 000 cases in 114 countries including China and was characterized as a pandemic by WHO on 11 March. We still face great challenges in control of the epidemic: uncertain initial source of infection, infected populations widely scattered, complex routs of transmission, populations generally susceptible, high contagiousness of the virus, and finally vaccines unlikely available in the near future.
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19; Causative sources; Susceptible population; Transmissibility; Vaccine
PMID:32220275DOI:10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200216-00108
[Challenges to prevent and control the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19)].
[Article in Chinese; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher]
Liu X[SUP]1[/SUP], Na RS[SUP]1[/SUP], Bi ZQ[SUP]2[/SUP].
Author information
Abstract
in English, Chinese
An outbreak of severe pneumonia of unknown cause was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The infectious virus was soon identified and named as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov). The name of the coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) was given by WHO on 11 February 2020. It has so far caused about 118 000 cases in 114 countries including China and was characterized as a pandemic by WHO on 11 March. We still face great challenges in control of the epidemic: uncertain initial source of infection, infected populations widely scattered, complex routs of transmission, populations generally susceptible, high contagiousness of the virus, and finally vaccines unlikely available in the near future.
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19; Causative sources; Susceptible population; Transmissibility; Vaccine
PMID:32220275DOI:10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200216-00108