China to improvise its disease prevention system amid criticism over COVID-19 response

Amid unprecedented outbreak of dely coronavirus, China has decided to introduce some reforms in its disease prevention and control system. pandemic which originated in mainland has fueled criticism over its handling of outbreak worldwide. refore, vice minister of China National Health Commission, Li Bin told reporters that COVID-19 pandemic was ‘big test’ for governance of country and its ability to handle diseases. In a bid to rectify mistakes me by Chinese government in past, commission plans to build a ‘centralised and efficient’ chain of command to ‘reform and modernise’ health system. 

According to international reports, after coronavirus outbreak spre to over 212 countries and territories, Chinese commission intends to utilise big data, artificial intelligence along with cloud computing to enhance tracing and analytic ability of virus resources and diseases caused by it. Li also told reporters that country is planning to ramp-up its research on its core techlogies to improve medical insurance and availability of emergency materials.

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As Chinese commission plans to reform its disease control methods, it also reported at least 15 new cases of COVID-19 disease with symptoms and zero fatalities. health officials said on May 9 that total asymptomatic cases in Asian superpower are 836 including 63 of imported infections. According to reports, most of asymptomatic cases of coronavirus were being reported from epicentres of outbreak in Hubei province. Meanwhile, Wuhan, that was initially COVID-19 hotspot has t reported a single case of coronavirus infection for last 35 days. 

After originating from China’s “wet markets”, coronavirus has w claimed 276,680 lives worldwide as of May 9. According to tally by international news ncy, pandemic has w spre to 212 countries and has infected at least 4,032,871 people. Out of total infections, 1,399,742 have been recovered but easily spre virus is continuing to disrupt many lives. Major cities have been put under lockdown in almost all countries and ecomy is struggling.

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(With input from ncies)