scholarly journals Modeling and Evaluation of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Curbing COVID-19 in Wuhan

2022 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linhua Zhou ◽  
Xinmiao Rong ◽  
Meng Fan ◽  
Liu Yang ◽  
Huidi Chu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals The trend of morbidity and mortality of Coronavirus disease 2019 under the first-level public health emergency response in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingya Xu ◽  
Xiling Lin ◽  
Xiaowen Pan ◽  
Xin Huang ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency Response ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
And Control

Abstract Background The ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to declaration of public health emergency of international concern by World Health Organization and the first-level public health emergency response in China. We aimed to share the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism taken in Mainland China and evaluate the effectiveness.Methods A powerful Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism was adopted to fight against COVID-19 in Mainland China. Data were collected from the daily epidemic reports released by the national and provincial health commissions of China from January 21 to April 6, 2020. Global data were collected from daily situation reports by World Health Organization.Results As of April 6, 2020, there were 81,740 confirmed COVID-19 cases (32 new) in Mainland China. The case fatality ratio was 4.74% and 0.85% in and outside Hubei respectively. It is gratifying to see that there were up to 22 provinces reporting zero new infections, but it can’t be ignored that there were 1,196,651 confirmed cases (68,700 new) reported in over 221 countries and territories outside China and the total death number were 69,274, nowadays China is facing great challenges of imported cases.Conclusions Great achievements have been made in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Mainland China, but it is still a major challenge worldwide. The comprehensive and powerful control measures taken by Mainland China have proved to be effective and might be applicable to other regions.

scholarly journals Thought on Establishing the Joint Prevention, Control and Disposal Mechanism of Medical Waste Under the COVID-19 Epidemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Cai ◽  
Xiao Tan ◽  
Ruofan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Capacity Allocation ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
And Control

A range of shortcomings was exposed in China’s medical waste disposal capabilities in responding to public health emergencies under outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic. Especially, the traditional medical waste disposal capacity allocation and the prevention and control mechanism oriented to “a single city” have been far from meeting the needs of medical waste disposal and management during the emergency period. Therefore, suggestions on establishing the regional joint prevention, control and disposal mechanism of medical waste were put forward in this paper with reference to the ideas of China’s existing regional joint prevention and control mechanism for air and water pollution, which covered the aspects of establishment of coordinating agencies, cross-regional collaborative disposal, cross-regional joint response to emergencies, cross-regional collaborative management and effectiveness evaluation.

scholarly journals A Citywide ‘Virus Testing': Chinese Government's Response to Preventing and Controlling the Second Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liting Zhou ◽  
Hans Nibshan Seesaghur ◽  
Nadeem Akhtar ◽  
Jason Boolakee ◽  
Cornelius B. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Situational Crisis Communication Theory ◽  
Other World ◽  
Daunting Challenge ◽  
Social Entities ◽  
And Control ◽  
Virus Testing

Containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is a daunting challenge globally. China, as well as a handful of other countries, has, for the most part, contained it by implementing strict policies. Wuhan's citywide virus-testing program presents a way forward in preventing and controlling the uncertainty, anxiety, instability and complexity it faces over the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. Inarguably, the health crisis requires time-tested strategies and tactics for coordinating governments' and social entities' response to the health crisis, with a goal toward having and ensuring sustained effectiveness. Because of a possible recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, the Prevention and Control Headquarters of Wuhan on COVID-19 launched a massive virus testing of Wuhan's 11 million residents; it was completed within 10 days. In light of this unprecedented mass testing, this study applies the situational crisis communication theory to analyze this massive virus-testing process and the mechanisms involved to contain SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan. While many countries still have partial lockdowns, the second outbreak in Wuhan was an indication of what awaited all SARS-CoV-2-stricken countries post-lockdowns and after community restrictions had been lifted. Therefore, the recently implemented Wuhan control mechanism (in cities, districts and townships) may become a hortatory guide to other world regions as they contend with and consider appropriate measures to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and to ensure public safety.

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