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A man sprays disinfectant on seats in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 16, 2020. (Photo by A.Hapuarachchi/Xinhua)
"If there is one piece of advice I could give to anyone during this time of concern, it would be this: Uncommon times call for uncommon measures," said an American basketball player who stayed in Beijing during the outbreak.
NEW YORK, March 18 (Xinhua) -- As the world is scaling up efforts to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many turned their attention to China and tried to learn from its anti-virus response.
What does media worldwide say about Chinese experiences? We collected some of the reports for you.
An article, published Tuesday in the online column NEWS EXPLAINER of Nature, focused on China's unprecedented lockdowns.
"These extreme limitations on population movement have been quite successful," Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease scientist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, was quoted as saying.
It is estimated that the number of people each infected individual gave the virus to "declined from 2.35 one week before travel restrictions were introduced on 23rd January to 1.05 one week after," according to a study report published March 11 in British medical journal The Lancet.
"That was amazing," Adam Kucharski, who models infectious-disease spread at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, also the lead author of the report, told Nature.
Passengers wearing face masks are seen in a subway train carriage in Santiago, Chile, March 17, 2020. (Photo by Jorge Villegas/Xinhua)
"Even if there were 20 or 40 times more (unreported) cases, which seems unlikely, the control measures worked," said Christopher Dye, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford.
A 6 March study published in Science by scientists in Italy, China and the U.S. suggested that travel bans slow the virus' spread only moderately unless other measures are introduced, according to Nature.
The scientific journal also said that early detection and isolation was the most important factor in reducing COVID-19 cases, citing Andrew Tatem, disease researcher at the University of Southampton.
Roy Anderson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, was quoted by Nature saying that governments should always remind people to maintain social distancing and good hygiene in case of new infections wave if lockdown were lifted.
Workers are busy on the medicine production line at the workshop of Hubei Tianyao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, March 16, 2020. Pharmaceutical companies in Xiangyang City are resuming operation and meanwhile step up their production to ensure the supply of medicines amid the fight against the COVID-19. (Photo by Xie Jianfei/Xinhua)
Havard Business Review on March 10 reported about Chinese companies' responses to the pandemic and "extracted 12 early lessons for leaders elsewhere."
- Look ahead and constantly reframe efforts
- Use an adaptive, bottom-up approach to complement top-down efforts
- Proactively create clarity and security for employees
- Reallocate labor flexibly to different activities
- Shift sales channel mix
- Use social media to coordinate employees and partners
- Prepare for a faster recovery than expected
- Expect different recovery speeds for different sectors
- Look for opportunity amid adversity
- Adapt recovery strategy by location
- Rapidly innovate around new needs
- Spot new consumption habits being formed
Giving detailed examples of Chinese companies including social video platform Kuaishou and cosmetics company Lin Qingxuan, the article suggested that codifying and applying lessons from other regions will be better able to protect any company's employees and business.
A delivery man disinfects his hands during work in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
Media coverage of foreigners living in China can also be seen on the internet, as most of them provided personal experiences amid the anti-virus fight and encouraged people through this season of unknown and unfamiliarity.
Devanny King, an American basketball player of Australia's West Adelaide Bearcats basketball club, shared her timeline of staying in Beijing from Jan. 5 to March 13.
King initially planned on staying in Beijing for only one month to train before heading to Adelaide, Australia. The nationwide lockdown and travel restrictions among countries changed her mind and kept staying in the Chinese capital.
"I decided it was best not to travel with so many unknowns about the virus," King wrote in her timeline published by Victory Sports Network, an North American sports news website.
"If there is one piece of advice I could give to anyone during this time of concern, it would be this: Uncommon times call for uncommon measures," King said.
"I believe that this pandemic has demonstrated the need to act with good behaviors in health not just for me but for the people around me," she said, stressing that "individual behaviors make such a significant difference."■
