The trend of morbidity and mortality of Coronavirus disease 2019 under
the first-level public health emergency response in China
Abstract
The ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already
caused a worldwide pandemic, World Health Organization has raised
COVID-19 global risk to very high. We aimed to share the Joint
Prevention and Control Mechanism taken in Mainland China and evaluate
the effectiveness. Data were collected from the daily epidemic reports
released by the national and provincial health commissions of China from
January 21 to March 26, 2020. Global data were collected from daily
situation reports by World Health Organization. Under the first-level
public health emergency response, great achievements have been made in
controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Mainland China. As of March 26,
the daily new deaths were less than 50 in nationwide recently. However,
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.