《LANCET,3月18日,The global community needs to swiftly ramp up the response to contain COVID-19》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-03-19
  • “Much of the global community is not yet ready for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]”. This is arguably one of the most resonating phrases in the Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019, released publicly on Feb 28, 2020. Major transmission hotspots were brought under control in China, but subsequently others sprouted across the globe. Since late February, 2020, the daily number of new cases has been higher in other parts of the world. New major epicentres have established in South Korea, Japan, Iran, and Italy. By mid-March, 2020, Europe was declared the world’s major epicentre.

  • 原文来源:https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)30679-6
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