Timeline of China releasing information on COVID-19 and advancing international cooperation

[Stranagor]

Based on media reports and information from the National Health Commission, scientific research institutions and other departments, Xinhua News Agency sorted out the main facts China has taken in the global joint anti-virus efforts to timely release epidemic information, share prevention and control experience, and advance international exchanges and cooperation on epidemic response.

The following timeline was arranged in chronological order.


Late December 2019

-- The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in central China's Hubei Province detected cases of pneumonia of unknown cause.


Dec. 30, 2019

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued an urgent notification to medical institutions under its jurisdiction, ordering efforts to appropriately treat patients with pneumonia of unknown cause.


Dec. 31, 2019

-- The National Health Commission (NHC) made arrangements in the wee hours, sending a working group and an expert team to Wuhan to guide epidemic response and conduct on-site investigations.

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released a briefing on its website about the pneumonia outbreak in the city, confirming 27 cases and telling the public not to go to enclosed public places or gather. It suggested wearing face masks when going out.

-- Starting Dec. 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released briefings on the pneumonia outbreak in accordance with the law.


January 2020

Jan. 1

-- The NHC set up a leading group to determine the emergency response to the epidemic. The group convened meetings on a daily basis since then.


Jan. 2

-- The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) received the first batch of samples of four patients from Hubei Province and began pathogen identification.

-- The NHC came up with a set of guidelines on early discovery, early diagnosis and early quarantine for the prevention and control of the viral pneumonia of unknown cause.


Jan. 3

-- Starting Jan. 3, China has been regularly informing the WHO, relevant countries and regions and China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan about the pneumonia outbreak.

-- China began to inform the United States of the pneumonia outbreak and response measures on a regular basis.

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on its website about the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, reporting a total of 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.

-- The NHC organized the China CDC and three other institutions to carry out parallel laboratory testing of the samples for pathogen identification.

-- The NHC and the Health Commission of Hubei Province jointly worked out nine documents on the outbreak, including a trial version of guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.


Jan. 4

-- The NHC and relevant health departments in Hubei Province issued a treatment manual for viral pneumonia of unknown cause to all medical institutions in Wuhan City, and provided citywide training.

-- Head of the China CDC talked over phone with director of the U.S. CDC about the pneumonia outbreak. The two sides agreed to keep in close contact for information sharing and technological cooperation.


Jan. 5

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, reporting a total of 59 cases. Laboratory test results ruled out respiratory pathogens, such as influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, as the cause.

-- China informed the WHO about the outbreak updates.

-- The WHO released its first briefing on cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan.



Jan. 6

-- The NHC gave a briefing on cases of pneumonia of unknown cause at a national health conference, calling for efforts to strengthen monitoring, analysis and study, and make timely response.


Jan. 7

-- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made instructions on epidemic response when presiding over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

-- The China CDC succeeded in isolating the first novel coronavirus strain.


Jan. 8

-- An expert evaluation team from the NHC initially identified a new coronavirus as the cause of the epidemic.

-- Heads of China and U.S. CDCs talked over phone to discuss technological exchanges and cooperation.


Jan. 9

-- An expert team from the NHC made public of the pathogen, saying a new type of coronavirus was initially identified as the cause of the viral pneumonia in Wuhan.

-- China informed the WHO about the epidemic, sharing with the WHO the initial progress in determining the cause of the viral pneumonia in Wuhan.

-- The WHO released on its website a statement regarding a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, saying that preliminary identification of a novel coronavirus in a short period of time is a notable achievement.


Jan. 10

-- Research institutions including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) developed testing kits. Wuhan City organized tests of all relevant cases admitted at hospitals in the city.

-- Head of the NHC Ma Xiaowei talked over phone with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the epidemic response.

-- Head of China CDC exchanged information over phone with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

-- The China CDC shared with the WHO the specific primers and probes for detecting the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 11

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.

Jan. 12

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission changed the name of "viral pneumonia of unknown cause"to "pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus"for the first time in a briefing.

-- The China CDC, the CAMS and the WIV under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as designated agencies of the NHC, submitted to the WHO the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was published by the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) and shared globally.

-- The NHC shared with the WHO about information on the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 13

-- The NHC held a meeting to instruct Wuhan authorities to further strengthen social management measures and body temperature monitoring of people at ports and stations, as well as reduce crowd gathering.

-- Delegations from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan visited Wuhan (until Jan. 14.)

-- Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated the outbreak briefing on its official website, saying Wuhan had reported a total of 41 cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus as of Jan. 12.

-- The WHO issued on its official website a statement on the discovery of the novel coronavirus cases in Thailand, pointing out that China's sharing of the genome sequence enabled more countries to quickly diagnose patients.


Jan. 14

-- The NHC held a national teleconference, making arrangements for Hubei Province and Wuhan City to strengthen epidemic prevention and control, while ordering the whole country to prepare for epidemic prevention and response.


Jan. 15

-- The NHC unveiled the first version of guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus, along with the guidelines on prevention and control measures.


Jan.16

-- After the optimization of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic reagents was complete, Wuhan City took proactive measures to screen all patients treated in fever clinics or under medical observation in 69 secondary or above hospitals.

-- Foreign journalists asked about the epidemic for the first time at a press conference held by the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing. Foreign ministry spokesperson said that China has timely informed the WHO and other international organizations of the outbreak and kept close communication with them.


Jan. 17

-- The NHC sent seven inspection teams to different provincial-level regions to instruct local epidemic prevention and control work.


Jan. 18

-- The NHC organized and sent a high-level expert team, headed by Zhong Nanshan, to Wuhan City to carry out on-site investigation into the prevention and control work (until Jan. 19).

-- The NHC released the second version of guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment for the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 19

-- The NHC distributed nucleic acid testing reagents to health departments across the country.

-- The China CDC communicated with the U.S. CDC on epidemic prevention and control.

-- Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated the outbreak briefing on its official website, saying as of Jan. 17, Wuhan had reported a total of 62 confirmed cases, including 19 cases discharged after recovery, eight cases with severe symptoms, and two deaths.


For the rest of the report, see


http://www.china.org.cn/china/2020-04/07/content_75903002.htm

 

[DavidsSling]

Based on media reports and information from the National Health Commission, scientific research institutions and other departments, Xinhua News Agency sorted out the main facts China has taken in the global joint anti-virus efforts to timely release epidemic information, share prevention and control experience, and advance international exchanges and cooperation on epidemic response.

The following timeline was arranged in chronological order.


Late December 2019

-- The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in central China's Hubei Province detected cases of pneumonia of unknown cause.


Dec. 30, 2019

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued an urgent notification to medical institutions under its jurisdiction, ordering efforts to appropriately treat patients with pneumonia of unknown cause.


Dec. 31, 2019

-- The National Health Commission (NHC) made arrangements in the wee hours, sending a working group and an expert team to Wuhan to guide epidemic response and conduct on-site investigations.

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released a briefing on its website about the pneumonia outbreak in the city, confirming 27 cases and telling the public not to go to enclosed public places or gather. It suggested wearing face masks when going out.

-- Starting Dec. 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released briefings on the pneumonia outbreak in accordance with the law.


January 2020

Jan. 1

-- The NHC set up a leading group to determine the emergency response to the epidemic. The group convened meetings on a daily basis since then.


Jan. 2

-- The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) received the first batch of samples of four patients from Hubei Province and began pathogen identification.

-- The NHC came up with a set of guidelines on early discovery, early diagnosis and early quarantine for the prevention and control of the viral pneumonia of unknown cause.


Jan. 3

-- Starting Jan. 3, China has been regularly informing the WHO, relevant countries and regions and China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan about the pneumonia outbreak.

-- China began to inform the United States of the pneumonia outbreak and response measures on a regular basis.

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on its website about the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, reporting a total of 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.

-- The NHC organized the China CDC and three other institutions to carry out parallel laboratory testing of the samples for pathogen identification.

-- The NHC and the Health Commission of Hubei Province jointly worked out nine documents on the outbreak, including a trial version of guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.


Jan. 4

-- The NHC and relevant health departments in Hubei Province issued a treatment manual for viral pneumonia of unknown cause to all medical institutions in Wuhan City, and provided citywide training.

-- Head of the China CDC talked over phone with director of the U.S. CDC about the pneumonia outbreak. The two sides agreed to keep in close contact for information sharing and technological cooperation.


Jan. 5

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, reporting a total of 59 cases. Laboratory test results ruled out respiratory pathogens, such as influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, as the cause.

-- China informed the WHO about the outbreak updates.

-- The WHO released its first briefing on cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan.



Jan. 6

-- The NHC gave a briefing on cases of pneumonia of unknown cause at a national health conference, calling for efforts to strengthen monitoring, analysis and study, and make timely response.


Jan. 7

-- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made instructions on epidemic response when presiding over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

-- The China CDC succeeded in isolating the first novel coronavirus strain.


Jan. 8

-- An expert evaluation team from the NHC initially identified a new coronavirus as the cause of the epidemic.

-- Heads of China and U.S. CDCs talked over phone to discuss technological exchanges and cooperation.


Jan. 9

-- An expert team from the NHC made public of the pathogen, saying a new type of coronavirus was initially identified as the cause of the viral pneumonia in Wuhan.

-- China informed the WHO about the epidemic, sharing with the WHO the initial progress in determining the cause of the viral pneumonia in Wuhan.

-- The WHO released on its website a statement regarding a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, saying that preliminary identification of a novel coronavirus in a short period of time is a notable achievement.


Jan. 10

-- Research institutions including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) developed testing kits. Wuhan City organized tests of all relevant cases admitted at hospitals in the city.

-- Head of the NHC Ma Xiaowei talked over phone with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the epidemic response.

-- Head of China CDC exchanged information over phone with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

-- The China CDC shared with the WHO the specific primers and probes for detecting the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 11

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated briefing on the situation of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.

Jan. 12

-- The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission changed the name of "viral pneumonia of unknown cause"to "pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus"for the first time in a briefing.

-- The China CDC, the CAMS and the WIV under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as designated agencies of the NHC, submitted to the WHO the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was published by the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) and shared globally.

-- The NHC shared with the WHO about information on the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 13

-- The NHC held a meeting to instruct Wuhan authorities to further strengthen social management measures and body temperature monitoring of people at ports and stations, as well as reduce crowd gathering.

-- Delegations from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan visited Wuhan (until Jan. 14.)

-- Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated the outbreak briefing on its official website, saying Wuhan had reported a total of 41 cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus as of Jan. 12.

-- The WHO issued on its official website a statement on the discovery of the novel coronavirus cases in Thailand, pointing out that China's sharing of the genome sequence enabled more countries to quickly diagnose patients.


Jan. 14

-- The NHC held a national teleconference, making arrangements for Hubei Province and Wuhan City to strengthen epidemic prevention and control, while ordering the whole country to prepare for epidemic prevention and response.


Jan. 15

-- The NHC unveiled the first version of guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus, along with the guidelines on prevention and control measures.


Jan.16

-- After the optimization of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic reagents was complete, Wuhan City took proactive measures to screen all patients treated in fever clinics or under medical observation in 69 secondary or above hospitals.

-- Foreign journalists asked about the epidemic for the first time at a press conference held by the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing. Foreign ministry spokesperson said that China has timely informed the WHO and other international organizations of the outbreak and kept close communication with them.


Jan. 17

-- The NHC sent seven inspection teams to different provincial-level regions to instruct local epidemic prevention and control work.


Jan. 18

-- The NHC organized and sent a high-level expert team, headed by Zhong Nanshan, to Wuhan City to carry out on-site investigation into the prevention and control work (until Jan. 19).

-- The NHC released the second version of guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment for the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.


Jan. 19

-- The NHC distributed nucleic acid testing reagents to health departments across the country.

-- The China CDC communicated with the U.S. CDC on epidemic prevention and control.

-- Wuhan Municipal Health Commission updated the outbreak briefing on its official website, saying as of Jan. 17, Wuhan had reported a total of 62 confirmed cases, including 19 cases discharged after recovery, eight cases with severe symptoms, and two deaths.


For the rest of the report, see


http://www.china.org.cn/china/2020-04/07/content_75903002.htm

CCP bots are so funny. LOL

 

[8888888888888]

If Wuhan got lock down in Late December, the rest of China would have avoided the Virus. But there were cover ups by local officials. Xi Jinping should have order a lock down when he heard about the Sars like virus.

 

[Dark1]

Dont blame China. They cant change their secretive ,opaque nature.
I blame the bought out WHO head who kept on insisting on open airways with China, even after China had imposed a countrywide lockdown. He criticized usa for terminating direct flights from China and led to this worldwide pandemic.
Who head needs to be investigated and hanged.

 

[sinait]

If Wuhan got lock down in Late December, the rest of China would have avoided the Virus. But there were cover ups by local officials. Xi Jinping should have order a lock down when he heard about the Sars like virus.

UNREALISTIC.
If the world after months of watching what happened in Wuhan have problem to lockdown their cities, why would you expect China to lockdown faster than within weeks of discovering a new virus during a time when the greatest migration, Chinese New Year, in the world is happening.
Or you would rather China do a harebrained lockdown immediately without preparation like what India did?
.

 

[8888888888888]

UNREALISTIC.
If the world after months of watching what happened in Wuhan have problem to lockdown their cities, why would you expect China to lockdown faster than within weeks of discovering a new virus during a time when the greatest migration, Chinese New Year, in the world is happening.
Or you would rather China do a harebrained lockdown immediately without preparation like what India did?
.

Your argument would make sense if China didn’t have SARS before. It had so they could have stop the movement of people from Wuhan, if the officials there didn’t try to cover it up.

 

[sinait]

Your argument would make sense if China didn’t have SARS before. It had so they could have stop the movement of people from Wuhan, if the officials there didn’t try to cover it up.

Singapore had SARS before.
We started a Partial Lockdown only from yesterday.
DON'T JOKE, lots of money involved, not a easy decision.
Our cost for 1 month partial lockdown, around $60 Billion.
.

 

[powastick]

Your argument would make sense if China didn’t have SARS before. It had so they could have stop the movement of people from Wuhan, if the officials there didn’t try to cover it up.

Its like your leg bitten by poisonous snake. You don't suggest to the doctor for leg amputation. You need to try out the anti-venom first. Amputation is last resort. Same with corona virus, it takes time to identify the stages. If China were to always choose amputation, China would end up a crippled man.

 

[8888888888888]

Its like your leg bitten by poisonous snake. You don't suggest to the doctor for leg amputation. You need to try out the anti-venom first. Amputation is last resort. Same with corona virus, it takes time to identify the stages. If China were to always choose amputation, China would end up a crippled man.

That's a wrong logic, Wuhan would recover after the virus has been settle. It's not like they are nuking the city.

Singapore had SARS before.
We started a Partial Lockdown only from yesterday.
DON'T JOKE, lots of money involved, not a easy decision.
Our cost for 1 month partial lockdown, around $60 Billion.
.

One city need to be suffer so the rest of the cities in China are safe. If the leader doesn't have the will to do this, then some new leader will take over.

 

[powastick]

That's a wrong logic, Wuhan would recover after the virus has been settle. It's not like they are nuking the city.

Your logic is to jump to stage 5. Nobody will go to stage 5 for cases of pneumonia. Pneumonia is not necessarily cause by Coronavirus and is much common that you think. It could be bacteria, fungi, parasites or common flu. You can't keep crying epidemic for each small outbreak. Maybe you can ignore the financial cost, but there is also political cost especially when don't have strong case for lockdown.

 

[8888888888888]

Your logic is to jump to stage 5. Nobody will go to stage 5 for cases of pneumonia. Pneumonia is not necessarily cause by Coronavirus and is much common that you think. It could be bacteria, fungi, parasites or common flu. You can't keep crying epidemic for each small outbreak. Maybe you can ignore the financial cost, but there is also political cost especially when don't have strong case for lockdown.

One City Vs Other Chinese Cities, only Wuhan would have the lock down instead the rest of China. I don't think it would even spread outside of China.

 

[powastick]

One City Vs Other Chinese Cities, only Wuhan would have the lock down instead the rest of China. I don't think it would even spread outside of China.

You don't get it do you. You don't lock down because of one fever. You have to do study the fever, is it normal or not normal. By your logic, China would have shutdown every city. Because every city have potential to have epidemic because fever is proof.

 

[8888888888888]

You don't get it do you. You don't lock down because of one fever. You have to do study the fever, is it normal or not normal. By your logic, China would have shutdown every city. Because every city have potential to have epidemic because fever is proof.

Your logic is wrong again, China had Sars before so they know what to expect and what to test out.

 

[BringHarmony]

Here is the latest development, LOL.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html

Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin

 

[8888888888888]

If fort detrick created the coronavirus in labs due to open publishing of the Sars virus family tree from Chinese sources I can see why they restrict it.