The number of confirmed cases worldwide continues to grow...
China's local epidemic has reached the end of prevention and control.
Just yesterday, 186 medical teams from Peking Union Medical College Hospital set off for Hubei to return to Beijing, becoming the last batch of medical teams leaving Hubei and Wuhan City to leave Hubei and Wuhan City. Huoshenshan Hospital and Leishenshan Hospital, the iconic hospitals in Wuhan’s fight against the epidemic, were also officially closed.
The local epidemic has been basically controlled, but the battle to block the epidemic imported from abroad has become a protracted war...
As of 8:00 on April 16, my country has 1,979 confirmed cases, and a total of 1,528 imported cases have been reported.
Although there are new local cases in the past two days, almost all are related to imported cases from abroad. The number of imported cases from abroad has always shown a two-digit growth, and the situation is still not optimistic.
China epidemic situation map
Among the 34 provincial units across the country, 8 provinces and regions, including Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet, Ningxia, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Henan and Hainan, have completely eliminated the epidemic; only 5 provinces, cities, special administrative regions, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Heilongjiang, Hubei and Shanghai, have more than 100 confirmed cases, especially Hong Kong has the largest number of confirmed cases.
In terms of the mainland, Heilongjiang has become a new key area for epidemic prevention and control. As early as April 12, the number of confirmed cases in Heilongjiang Province exceeded the number of confirmed cases in Hubei Province.
The new confirmed cases imported every day in the mainland are mainly Heilongjiang, Guangdong and Shanghai. These three places are areas with close Sino-foreign contacts. As long as the epidemic abroad has not been alleviated, the imported cases from abroad will basically not stop.
Looking at the global epidemic situation, the number of new confirmed cases per day is more than 50,000, and the spread has not yet been alleviated.
At present, the number of confirmed cases worldwide has exceeded 2 million for the first time, reaching 2077,985.
- The first 100,000 case: [67 days] From December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization's China Office received a report that unknown pneumonia occurred in Wuhan. By 13:00 on March 7, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide was 101,828, breaking the 100,000 mark for the first time.
- The 10th 100,000 case: [27 days] From March 7, 2020 to 4:00 on April 3, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide was 1,002,159, breaking the 1 million mark for the first time.
- has the 20th 100,000 case: [13 days] From April 3, 2020 to 22:00 on April 15, 2020, the global cumulative number of confirmed cases was 2,000,984, breaking the 2 million mark for the first time.
The time interval for every million cases in the world has been greatly shortened, proving that the epidemic is still spreading faster in countries around the world. At present, countries with rapidly growing confirmed cases are still dominated by major capitalist countries in the United States and Europe.
As of 23:00 on April 15th, data
From the above top ten countries with the most confirmed cases in the world, it can be seen that the six most developed and powerful capitalist countries in the world have the largest number of confirmed cases, especially the United States has reached about one-third of the global cases.
Faced with such a serious epidemic, many countries have taken extremely strict measures to cut off their airlines, and even completely closed their borders to curb imported cases from abroad.
As the world's first to win the local epidemic prevention war, why can't China take measures to cut off its flights and completely close its borders to maintain the hard-won anti-epidemic results in the country? There are three main considerations:
First of all, completely cut off air and close borders with other countries abroad, which is likely to cause the illusion of excessive epidemic prevention for other countries. When the epidemic in China was at its worst, some countries took measures to suspend flights to China, close borders, and prohibit Chinese people from entering. For this reason, we strongly called on them not to prevent the epidemic in China from being excessive.
Because this excessive epidemic prevention behavior is most likely to cause discriminatory illusion, causing disagreement between the people of the two countries. Earlier, Shandong and other places took prevention and control measures against South Koreans, which caused protests from the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which would make them feel disappointed. Also, Italy was the first to suspend its routes in China. At that time, we also felt dissatisfied in our hearts, thinking that Italy's epidemic prevention was too good.
Therefore, it is not realistic to cut off flights, completely prohibit foreigners from entering the country, and completely close the country's borders. Only effective epidemic prevention measures can be taken to strengthen supervision of incoming personnel.
Secondly: The motherland cannot reject for a large number of overseas students and migrant workers. At present, more and more Chinese students are studying in other countries. Not only college students, but even underage children are beginning to receive foreign education in groups. As young students, this group is still huge.
International students are in a foreign country and have not fully entered society. Their self-protection capabilities are very weak. Some time ago, there were tens of thousands of young international students in the UK, and there are also many underage students in developed countries such as the United States and Australia. For groups like this, they may have to choose to return to China. After all, the epidemic overseas is far more serious than China. China is their home. There is no reason for the motherland to refuse to treat their own citizens.
In addition to international students, there are more groups of people working overseas Chinese. Many people do not have fixed residences overseas. When the epidemic in their country is serious, they are the group that is most easily overlooked by the host country. Returning to China to avoid the epidemic may be the best choice.
Furthermore, when the epidemic in China was at its worst, overseas students, Chinese and overseas Chinese also actively purchased materials for the motherland to donate to the country. Now they have difficulties. How can the motherland close its borders?
Last: It is necessary to maintain connectivity between China and around the world, and it is impossible to self-enclose . The epidemic situation in various countries around the world is under great pressure, but national development must continue and global economic and trade activities must continue. In today's globalization, any self-blocking behavior will have a very serious adverse impact on oneself.
Especially for major countries such as China, the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain and France, many of their consumer markets and their commodity supply and demand markets maintain the smooth flow of global supply chains. Once all closed, it means interruption of contacts. Not only the country is affected, but also most overseas countries are also affected.
As the world's largest commodity supply market and consumer market, China bears the important responsibility of maintaining global economic growth and also shoulders the important mission of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. What we need to do is to follow the overall situation of epidemic prevention, continue to open up and keep economic and trade unstagnant while ensuring epidemic prevention security.
Therefore, my country is still properly open when the current pressure of the epidemic abroad is very high. But after all, if China wants to completely win the battle against the epidemic, it still depends on the overseas epidemic being controlled and the epidemic situation gradually improving.
Only when the world wins, China will win... This is also the reason why China is fully helping countries around the world fight the epidemic, just to make human beings defeat the demon of the new coronavirus as soon as possible.
