WHO officials congratulate China on 20-day streak of zero local COVID-19 cases
Several senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday congratulated China on a 20-day streak of zero locally transmitted cases on the mainland.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, senior advisor to the WHO director-general and lead of the COVID-19 international experts' mission in China, called the streak a "milestone."
Aylward said China's success can be attributed to three aspects, namely investment at the state level in the public health infrastructure, the sense of individual responsibility among the Chinese people and the incredible efforts to build additional capacity and preparedness even when infection was heading down.
"There is a public health infrastructure right through all levels of the country that could talk to the different pieces and could move information, move learnings. And some things were particularly striking. They could update their national guidance in a country of over a billion people every week and get that right out through their systems so people could stay current. It was very, very striking," said Aylward.
"The secondly overall was just the sense of individual responsibility that we saw in the Chinese people. When you travel around the country for three weeks and you're staying in hotels, you're traveling in trains, you're in restaurants in various places, socially distanced, very distant often. But you do meet a lot of people, a lot of Chinese individuals, and their sense of responsibility for keeping the world safe, keeping their communities safe, for doing the right things, was probably the most striking thing we saw, that sense of collective responsibility," he added.
He said all of those things are part of the reason that people are seeing the very low levels of transmission in China which hopefully can be maintained.
(Source: Reuters)
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