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Act Together, Act Now
China is part of the global campaign against
the novel coronavirus pandemic. When it
faced a critical situation, the international
community stood behind it, providing moral
and material support. Now that the situation
is under control in China but deteriorating
in some countries, the Chinese authorities
are reciprocating the support by urgently
sending medical teams, supplies and sharing
information.
The Chinese achievement in containing
the disease can provide a valuable lesson
to other countries where the infection is on
the rise. This has been acknowledged by
international health organizations repeat-
edly. On March 16, Gauden Galea, the World
Health Organization (WHO) China repre-
sentative who had been on an assessment
visit to Wuhan in central China, where the
outbreaks were reported earlier this year,
told UN News, “This lesson in containment
[in China], therefore, is a lesson that other
countries can learn from and adapt for their
own circumstances.”
Galea, like other WHO officials,
also highlighted the “high price” paid
by Wuhan’s residents as the city of 11 million
people was put on lockdown, “thus ‘buying
time’ for the rest of China and the world.”
However, he also indicated that some
countries, even while facing the disease on
their doorstep, had not learned from the ex-
perience in China, saying, “Very few countries
are manifesting any greater speed in action.”
While some countries have put in
place effective containment and medicalmeasures, some are busy launching politi-
cally motivated attacks and imposing trade
curbs on others. This is bound to endanger
their own people as well as the entire world.
It can’t be reiterated often enough that
viruses are the enemy of the whole globe
and don’t choose their victims based on
ethnicity, nationality or race. That’s why
the international community should band
together to fight the virus as a common
enemy.
There is still no scientific proof of how
the disease originated and spread. But
there is proof incontrovertible of the com-
prehensive approach taken by the Chinese
Government and civil society to contain the
virus, though at a great cost to themselves.
And the measures were shared with the
international community in a transparent
and timely manner, which helped accelerate
research and development of medicines
and vaccines in several countries. Those who
criticize China for the outbreak ignore the
sacriĶ ce China made for them to gain time
to map out their own virus control strategy
well in advance.
It is not too late to act now. The histo-
ry of human civilization is also the history
of Ķ ghting diseases unitedly. The infection
can be contained if the basic precautions
are taken. Besides, the recovery of a large
number of patients in China shows there
is no cause for panic. As long as everyone
pulls together and encourages one an-
other, this virus too will be controlled like
other diseases before it. QA News Weekly Magazine
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