Strong WHO Support and Assistance

Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, the WHO has been highly concerned with the epidemic. It has not only given understanding, support and affirmation to China's prevention and control efforts, but also fully cooperated with China on the fight against the epidemic.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited China on January 28 to investigate the COVID-19 epidemic. An advance team of WHO international experts led by Canadian epidemiologist and emergency expert Dr. Bruce Aylward arrived in China on February 10 to work with their Chinese counterparts. 

On February 16, the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19 began to work by visiting Beijing and the provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan and Hubei respectively. After conducting field investigation, asking about epidemic and treatment situation, and learning from Chinese experience in epidemic prevention and control, they carried out technical exchanges and deepened mutual trust and cooperation. 

At the press conference the joint team held in Beijing on February 24, Dr. Bruce Aylward noted that China's unprecedented public health responses to the COVID-19 outbreak have yielded notable results in controlling human-to-human transmission of the virus, and "averted and probably prevented at least tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands, of cases." China is taking prudent, phased and orderly steps to gradually restore order in social, economic, education and healthcare sectors, and other countries should swiftly reassess the measures taken toward China. He also said the world needs to learn from China's experience and recognize what the people of Wuhan have done to the world, and the world is in their debt. With the disease finishes, he said, he hopes he has the chance to thank the people of Wuhan on behalf of the world again.

In response to the fake news and stigmatization emerging amid the epidemic, the WHO has made judges based on science and evidence, tried to communicate with and coordinate mainstream information channels, actively clarified the actual situations, constantly called for all parties to stick to the truth, boycott rumors, maintain confidence and strengthen cooperation, and ensured the public have access to authoritative information. 

Statistics models provided by some WHO experts showed that China's measures on movement restriction have delayed the dissemination of the outbreak two or three days within China and two or three weeks outside China. 

The WHO has spoken positively of and fully affirmed China's efforts to contain the novel coronavirus. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the quick speed and massive scale of China's response to coronavirus is rarely seen in the world and shows the advantages of China's system. He called for other countries to emulate China's experience. China's large-scale prevention and control action has brought time for the world and made the world safer. Moreover, WHO officials and experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Bruce Aylward have expressed commendation, respect and appreciation to China's medical professionals on many occasions.

世界衛(wèi)生組織大力支持和幫助

新冠肺炎疫情發(fā)生以來(lái)，世界衛(wèi)生組織高度關(guān)注，不僅對(duì)中國(guó)疫情防控工作給予理解、支持和肯定，還積極同中國(guó)展開(kāi)合作，全力幫助中國(guó)抗擊疫情。

2020年1月28日，世界衛(wèi)生組織總干事譚德塞訪問(wèn)中國(guó)，考察新冠肺炎疫情。2月10日，由加拿大流行病學(xué)專家和應(yīng)急專家布魯斯-艾爾沃德率領(lǐng)的世衛(wèi)組織國(guó)際專家組首批成員抵達(dá)中國(guó)，與中國(guó)同行一起工作。2月16日，中國(guó)—世界衛(wèi)生組織新型冠狀病毒肺炎聯(lián)合專家考察組正式開(kāi)展工作，分別前往北京市、廣東省、四川省和湖北省開(kāi)展現(xiàn)場(chǎng)調(diào)研，了解疫情形勢(shì)和救治情況，學(xué)習(xí)中國(guó)防控經(jīng)驗(yàn)，開(kāi)展技術(shù)交流，深化互信合作。2月24日，聯(lián)合專家考察組在北京舉行新聞發(fā)布會(huì)，外方組長(zhǎng)布魯斯-艾爾沃德指出，中國(guó)采取了前所未有的公共衛(wèi)生應(yīng)對(duì)措施，在阻斷病毒人際傳播、減緩疫情擴(kuò)散蔓延方面取得明顯效果，已經(jīng)避免或推遲了至少數(shù)十萬(wàn)新冠肺炎病例。中國(guó)正在采取謹(jǐn)慎、分階段、有序的方式，逐步恢復(fù)社會(huì)、經(jīng)濟(jì)、教育和醫(yī)療等各部門(mén)的正常秩序，其他國(guó)家應(yīng)迅速重新評(píng)估對(duì)中國(guó)采取的措施。他表示，世界需要學(xué)習(xí)中國(guó)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，要認(rèn)識(shí)到武漢人民所做出的貢獻(xiàn)，世界虧欠他們，當(dāng)這場(chǎng)疫情過(guò)去的時(shí)候，希望有機(jī)會(huì)能代表世界再一次感謝武漢人民。

針對(duì)疫情期間一些別有用心的假消息、污名化言行，世衛(wèi)組織堅(jiān)持以科學(xué)和事實(shí)為依據(jù)作出判斷，努力溝通協(xié)調(diào)主流信息渠道，積極澄清真相，不斷呼吁各方堅(jiān)持真理、抵制謠言、保持信心、加強(qiáng)合作，確保民眾得到權(quán)威信息。據(jù)世衛(wèi)組織部分合作專家提供的數(shù)據(jù)模型顯示，中國(guó)采取的控制人員流動(dòng)等措施讓中國(guó)境內(nèi)的疫情傳播速度延緩了兩到三天，讓中國(guó)境外的疫情傳播速度延緩了兩到三周。世衛(wèi)組織積極評(píng)價(jià)并充分肯定中國(guó)抗擊疫情的努力，總干事譚德塞表示，中方行動(dòng)之快、規(guī)模之大，世所罕見(jiàn)；這是中國(guó)制度的優(yōu)勢(shì)，有關(guān)經(jīng)驗(yàn)值得其他國(guó)家借鑒；中國(guó)所采取的大規(guī)模防控行動(dòng)為世界爭(zhēng)取了時(shí)間，讓世界更加安全。此外，包括譚德塞、艾爾沃德在內(nèi)的世衛(wèi)組織官員和專家還多次表達(dá)了對(duì)中國(guó)醫(yī)護(hù)人員的肯定、敬意和感謝。