Lessons from the Success Story: The Systematic Approach to Fight Against COVID-19 in Beijing

Han, Yi; Li, Jie; Jia, Kun; Liu, Yanxu; Zhao, Wenwu

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global crisis. Sharing experiences in combating the COVID-19 pandemic and seeking international cooperation is an effective way to facilitate countries’ search for appropriate measures to prevent and control the pandemic. The new local confirmed case of COVID-19 suddenly appeared in Beijing on June 11, when there are 56 consecutive days with no new local cases but rapidly controlled in a short period. Its systematic strategy to combat the pandemic is worth sharing and learning from. Beijing’s pandemic prevention and control measures can be summarized in the “coordination, classification, and collaboration” approach. Based on this prevention and control strategy, Beijing’s anti-pandemic work coordinated the government, society, and individuals’ forces. It divided the critical works of pandemic prevention and control, coordinated the conflict between anti-pandemic work and production life, and finally achieved the smooth anti-pandemic work. Beijing’s experience in fighting the pandemic can provide one of the solutions to mitigate the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis.