COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic globally since the 1918 influenza pandemic.Effectively responding to this once-in-a-century global pandemic is a worldwide challenge that the international community needs to joint...COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic globally since the 1918 influenza pandemic.Effectively responding to this once-in-a-century global pandemic is a worldwide challenge that the international community needs to jointly face and solve.This study reviews and discusses the key measures taken by major countries in 2020 to fight against COVID-19,such as lockdowns,social distancing,wearing masks,hand hygiene,using Fangcang shelter hospitals,large-scale nucleic acid testing,close-contacts tracking,and pandemic information monitoring,as well as their prevention and control effects.We hope it can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pandemic prevention and control in future.展开更多
基金funded by the Advisory Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering(No.2020-XZ-37)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81871738)the Mega-projects of Science and Technology Research(No.2018ZX10711001).
文摘COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic globally since the 1918 influenza pandemic.Effectively responding to this once-in-a-century global pandemic is a worldwide challenge that the international community needs to jointly face and solve.This study reviews and discusses the key measures taken by major countries in 2020 to fight against COVID-19,such as lockdowns,social distancing,wearing masks,hand hygiene,using Fangcang shelter hospitals,large-scale nucleic acid testing,close-contacts tracking,and pandemic information monitoring,as well as their prevention and control effects.We hope it can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pandemic prevention and control in future.