China's fight against COVID-19: What we have done and what we should do next?

Sixiang Cheng; Yuxin Zhao; Atipatsa Chiwanda Kaminga; Pingxin Zhang; Huilan Xu

The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.28.20046086 doi: medRxiv preprint rate of admission and minimize the mortality of severe patients. In Wuhan city and other priority areas of Hubei Province, the focus was on actively treating patients, reducing deaths, and preventing exports. In other provinces, the focus was on preventing importations, curbing the spread of the disease and implementing joint prevention and control measures. In this fight, medical resources from all over China have been mobilized to support the medical treatment of patients in Wuhan. A total of 343 medical teams were organized, and 42,200 medical staff members from 29 provinces and Xinjiang production and construction corps were used to assist Wuhan and Hubei Province. Less than 10 days to construct two temporary hospitals. As of 28 In addition, new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are used to enhance contact tracing and focus group management and resource allocation, to identify the source of suspected cases, to conduct epidemiological investigations in the community. The data and information system for epidemic prevention and control based on the people's public security big data system is an important "weapon" for Wuhan to win the battle of epidemic prevention and control. Additionally, the Wuhan government proposed a large step to ensure that 100% of confirmed patients should be received to the hospital, that 100% of suspected cases were undergoing nucleic acid-based testing, 100% of fever patients were detected, 100% of close contacts persons were isolation, and community villages implemented 100% 24-hours closed management. In particular, the fact of five "hundred percent" told us during February 16-19, 2020, these powerful actions to correct the statement of former Wuhan official epidemiology investigation data (98.6%) [9] .