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The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 44,653 by the end of February 11. A total of 1,113 people have died of COVID-19, and altogether 4,740 people have been discharged from hospital after recovery.
- The World Health Organization (WHO), on Tuesday, officially named the latest novel coronavirus COVID-19.
- The peak of COVID-19 should appear in mid-to-late February, and the disease may be over by April, said Dr. Zhong Nanshan.
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The number of China's new confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside the Hubei Province has been dropping for eight consecutive days.
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As of Tuesday at midnight, Chongqing had reported a total of 505 confirmed cases with 29 severe cases, 24 critical cases, three deaths, and 79 discharged patients.
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Experts believe that the recent newly reported confirmed cases in Chongqing have mainly come from close contacts. If people have symptoms like a fever or cough, they should seek timely medical treatment to reduce the risk of epidemic transmission.
The seventh Chongqing municipal medical team to assist Hubei Province departed on February 11, 2020. (Photo by Gao Ke)
Chongqing - As of 24:00 local time on February 11, Chongqing had reported a total of 505 confirmed cases infected by COVID-19, according to the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission Wednesday. There are 29 severe cases, 24 critical cases, three deaths, and 79 discharged patients.
A total of 17,910 people who had close contacts with COVID-19 patients have been traced, 11,262 people have been released from medical observation, and 6,648 people are under medical observation.
Timely treatment to reduce the risk of epidemic transmission
According to Tuesday's municipal press conference on epidemic prevention and control, experts believe that the recent newly reported confirmed cases mainly came from close contacts, analyzed from the statistics that 68.35% of newly confirmed cases from February 6 to February 9 were from close contacts.
At the same time, the number of median days between the first diagnosis and the final confirmation of the case decreased from 6.5 days on February 4 to 2.0 days now. The active exposure of the source of infection in the community population has decreased.
Experts point out that continuous strengthening of close contact tracking and isolation management is the key to the current epidemic prevention and control. People who had close contact with COVID-19 patients will be under centralized medical observation at the designated place and have single-room isolation. The general public needs to increase awareness of prevention and control, have good self-protection, and lessen outside trips, and avoid gathering in crowds. If people have symptoms like a fever or cough, seek timely medical treatment to reduce the risk of epidemic transmission.
Apart from 141 medical workers already in Xiaogan city, Hubei Province, Chongqing dispatched another medical team of 159 members from six municipal-level hospitals and seven district- and county-level hospitals. The sixth municipal medical team to assist Hubei left on Tuesday afternoon for Xiaogan, and the seventh 26-member team made up of ten doctors, and 16 nurses also departed on Tuesday evening.
China's National Health Commission said Wednesday that the overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 44,653 by the end of Tuesday, noting that a total of 1,113 people had died of COVID-19 and that altogether 4,740 people had been discharged from hospital after recovery. By the end of Tuesday, 49 confirmed cases, including one death had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), ten confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 18 in Taiwan. One patient in Macao and one in Taiwan have been discharged from hospital after recovery.
China's new confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside Hubei Province, where the epicenter city of Wuhan is located, have been dropping for eight consecutive days, according to the NHC.
The renowned Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan said Tuesday that the peak of COVID-19 should appear in mid-to-late February, and the disease may be over by April. The inflection point is still undetermined amid the current novel coronavirus outbreak. "I believe that with enough venues, enough doctors, better protective gear, and our various support teams, the situation in Wuhan should improve quickly, but it is still at a rather difficult stage," Zhong said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday named the latest novel coronavirus COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease starting in 2019. According to the WHO, the naming of the virus should avoid any stigmatizing by not referring it to any specific geographic locations, animals, individuals' names, species of animal, culture, population, industry, or occupation.