Challenges to prevent and control the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19)
10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200216-00108
- VernacularTitle: 新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情防控面临的挑战
- Author:
Xia LIU
1
;
Risha NA
1
;
Zhenqiang BI
2
Author Information
1. Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Beijing 100021, China
2. Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan 250014, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
COVID-19;
Causative sources;
Transmissibility;
Susceptible population;
Vaccine
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2020;41(0):E029-E029
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
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.
