COVID-19 containment: China provides important lessons for global response.

The world must act fast to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of COVID-19 now. The unprecedented public health efforts in China have contained the spread of this new virus. Measures taken in China are currently proven to reduce human-to-human transmission successfully. We summarized the effective intervention and prevention measures in the fields of public health response, clinical management, and research development in China, which may provide vital lessons for the global response. It is really important to take collaborative actions now to save more lives from the pandemic of COVID-19.

Frontiers of medicine. 2020 Mar 25 [Epub ahead of print]

Shuxian Zhang, Zezhou Wang, Ruijie Chang, Huwen Wang, Chen Xu, Xiaoyue Yu, Lhakpa Tsamlag, Yinqiao Dong, Hui Wang, Yong Cai

School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, China., Department of Cancer Prevention, Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China., Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110122, China., School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, China. ., School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, China. .