Chinese Emergency Operations That Must Compete Quickly With The Spread Of The Corona Virus

The Chinese government has deployed military medical personnel to handle the Corona virus in Wuhan (Twitter @Chinaorg)

JAKARTA - The Chinese government has isolated the city of Wuhan indefinitely. This follows the spread of the nCoV or corona virus, which has killed 80 people with 2,800 others declared infected.

The rapid spread of the outbreak made the Chinese government carry out a military emergency operation to control the spread of the corona virus. CNN proclaimed, the spread of this virus is increasingly difficult to control because there are no specific symptoms from an infected person.

This means that people who look healthy can actually be infected with the virus which is claimed to be deadly. Apart from the absence of symptoms or symptoms, doctors or scientists do not yet know how this virus can be transmitted to other people.

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The Chinese government has carried out its emergency procedures, fully or partially closing access in 15 cities including Wuhan, Qianjiang, and Tianmen. At least 57 million Wuhan residents are now quarantined from outside access.

Chinese authorities have also dispatched 1,200 medical personnel, including 135 from the People's Liberation Army, to assist hospital staff in the city.

In an emergency situation like this, the Chinese government extended the Lunar New Year holiday until February 2. The policy is an effort to prevent people from traveling and spread the virus more widely. In addition, almost all Chinese New Year festivals were canceled, while the authorities also urged people not to hold large family gatherings.

All of these emergency operations were directly led by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, the budget that has been disbursed for the emergency operation has reached more than 11 billion yuan or around 21.5 trillion rupiah.

Efforts to Make Vaccines

LOOK: China has started construction on a special hospital in Wuhan to be used to treat coronavirus-infected patients. The hospital is designed to have 1,000 beds and they say it will be open by Feb. 3. pic.twitter.com/mBgIJyzpgd

- QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) January 24, 2020

Since the first time the corona virus was identified in December last year, Chinese and international scientists have studied it intensively. They are trying to trace its origins and create a vaccine against it, but have not found a bright spot.

According to officials from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) they said they had succeeded in isolating the virus in samples taken in the environment around a seafood market in Wuhan that were believed to be the source of the disease. As reported by the state news agency, Xinhua, 33 of the 585 samples collected at the Wuhan market contained nucleic acid from the corona virus.

From these findings, the Chinese government immediately took steps to suspend the national trade in wild animals. All forms of wildlife trade will be prohibited in all places including markets, supermarkets, eating places, and e-commerce sites. Meanwhile, all places that have kept wild animals will be quarantined.