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

  1. Jie Zhang
  2. Tianjing Wang
  3. Jiaqi Wang
  4. Jingjing Chen
  5. Hongwei Yan
  6. Lin Sun

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Abstract

Background

Since late December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has emerged in Wuhan and rapidly spread throughout China. Fears were raised higher, effective policies for prevention and control were concerned.

Methods

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 had lower increased in daily new confirmed cases.

Results

Compared with the paired province, Tianjin, Jilin, Gansu, Shanxi, Hainan and Guizhou had significant differences in the number of new confirmed cases and have lower mean rank (P<0.05). Shanghai had a lower mean rank (P=0.175) but no significant difference. Besides, the successful prevention and control work need other effective strategies, such as real time media coverage, isolating the suspected cases or close contacts, delaying the return of work, closing schools, wearing facial masks, and disinfecting the communities, et.al.

Conclusions

Strategies must be adjusted in real time according to the epidemic. Reporting the life tracks of confirmed cases was an effective way to control the epidemic. They may be suggestions to other counties with an outbreak of COVID-19.

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    The spread of SARS in 2003, also brought to light substantial weaknesses in the country’s public-health system. After the SARS epidemic was brought under control, the government increased its commitment and leadership to tackle public-health problems and, among other efforts, increased public-health funding, revised laws that concerned the control of infectious diseases, implemented the world’s largest internet-based disease reporting system, and started a program to rebuild local public-health facilities(22). For the outbreak of epidemic in the whole country, the prevention and control system should be changed timely. Different levels of cases should be treated differently. Case detection and management, vulnerable population protection, and transmission routes cutting off are needed to decrease the rate of infection. The monitoring of the epidemic by Health Commission is necessary. Real time media are needed to attract the people’s attention. In this study, we found the provinces that reported the life tracks for confirmed cases had mild epidemic and less confirmed cases (Figure 2 and Figure 3). 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, table 2). Compared with the matched municipalities, Shanghai has not significant difference but has a lower mean rank (P=0.175). There may be two reasons for this result. Firstly, the population densi...

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