China to increase number of response teams for new infectious diseases

According to a major health official, China may increase the number of specialized team tasked with preventing upcoming infectious disease outbreaks by five to twenty.

According to Wang Hesheng, a chairman at the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, the nation will also improve early detection and appropriate regulatory or legal devices.

Wang added that it may be difficult to avoid a pathogen with an epidemic potential but that pandemics could be avoided as a result of speaking on Saturday on the sidelines of an annual session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress ( NPC ).

According to a report on the NPC’s standing committee’s work, China has also completed draft revisions to the laws governing the prevention, control, and quarantine of communicable diseases.

In his work record, Chinese Premier Li Qiang claimed that COVID-19 had won” a major, decisive win.”