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At an extraordinary council on the COVID-19 epidemic held in Brussels on Friday, the European Union (EU) health ministers agreed to develop a coordinated approach to prevention and protection of people at risk, and establish coherent containment measures, including evidence-based advice concerning travel to and from risk areas.
Prior to this meeting, epidemiologist Bruce Aylward presented the results of a field study trip in China, mentioning that he was impressed by the Chinese pragmatic, systemic, and innovative approach to control the outbreak.
“China has taken a ‘differentiated approach’ towards the different situations of sporadic cases, clusters of cases, or community transmission, which makes for a massive scale of epidemic control work without exhausting its response,” the team leader of the China-World Health Organization (WHO) joint mission on COVID-19 said.
The epidemiologist also praised the Chinese people for their collective action saying that “it’s never easy to get the kind of passion, commitment, interest, and individual sense of duty that help stop the virus.”
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According to China’s EU mission, two video conferences on COVID-19 have been held between officials and experts from the two sides, with the first on Feb. 12 and the second on Feb. 26.
During the first conference, Chinese experts spoke about the measures taken in response to COVID-19. They answered questions from EU experts, who thanked their Chinese counterparts for the comprehensive briefing.
The EU side expressed readiness to give a timely update on the relevant situation, maintain close communication and step up exchanges with China on prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment during the epidemic […]
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