China hopes to have the outbreak of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) under control in late April, the head of the team of specialist doctors at the National Health Commission of China, pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan, said today.”China is confident that it will control the outbreak in general terms by the end of April,” Zhong said in an interview in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province.He assured that, “although there was a major outbreak in Wuhan, the disease did not spread massively in other cities”.The respiratory disease specialist said the number of cases in China began to decline after February 15, “due to strong state intervention” and “travel cancellations after the Lunar New Year holidays” between January 24 and 30 , but which have been prolonged to prevent the spread of the disease.Confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.According to data updated by the National Health Commission of China, until midnight today (4 pm Wednesday in Lisbon), China had a total of 2,744 deaths and 78,497 confirmed cases.Among the confirmed cases, 43,258 are still active and 8,346 are in serious condition. More than 32,400 people have already been discharged after overcoming the disease.Zhong said the predictions of some foreign experts, who estimated that the number of cases in China would reach 160,000, “did not take into account the Chinese government’s intervention.””Our team predicted that the number of patients would reach about 70 thousand. We presented these numbers to an international publication, but they were not accepted,” he said.
Source: Revista Globo Rural