Reporting the life tracks of confirmed cases can effective prevent and control the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Zhang, J.; Wang, T.; Wang, J.; Chen, J.; Yan, H.; Sun, L.

Since late December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China. Fears were raised higher, so effective policies about the emergency prevention and control were concerned. Till March 3, 91273 confirmed COVID-19 cases were included in. Using Mann-Whitney U test, the provinces that reported the life tracks of confirmed cases to public have lower increased in daily new confirmed cases. Compared with the paired province, Tianjin, Jilin, Gansu, Shanxi, Hainan and Guizhou have significant differences in the number of new confirmed cases and have lower mean rank (P<0.05). Compared with the matched municipalities, Shanghai has not significant difference but has a lower mean rank (P=0.175). Besides this, the success prevention and control work need other effective strategies, such as the appointment and removal of leaders in Hubei province, real time media coverage, isolating the suspected cases or even close contacts, encouraging people to avoid going outside, delaying the return of work, closing schools, wearing facial masks, and disinfecting the communities, et.al, have kept China's epidemic under control. Strategies in China were adjusted in real time according to the epidemic which made a well prevention and control. They may be suggestions to other counties with an outbreak of COVID-19.