Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Head of the joint mission of the PRC and the World Health Organization /WHO/ on the issue of the new coronavirus infection /COVID-19/ Bruce Aylward praised the measures taken by China to combat the epidemic, saying that they can be reproduced but it requires speed, money, imagination and political courage. This was reported by the American newspaper The New York Times.

The containment of the epidemic is still possible if countries act quickly, “because we do not have a global pandemic - we have outbreaks taking place all over the world,” the newspaper quotes B. Aylward.

Visiting China in early February, a WHO expert rejected suspicions that the number of cases of COVID-19 in China is not decreasing.

“During the peak of analysis, 46 thousand people turned to the day. When we left, there were 13 thousand. There were empty beds in the hospitals,” Aylward said, adding that“ in the end, hundreds of thousands of people in China did not get COVID-19 due to such an aggressive response. ”

He noted that China has moved half of its medical care to the Internet, thus, “if you need prescriptions for drugs such as insulin or cardiac drugs, they can be prescribed and delivered.”

In addition, testing for the virus is free, and if the patient confirms COVID-19, and his insurance is over, the government pays most of the medical bills for subsequent treatment, the expert noted.

Ailward also praised China’s ability to mobilize, noting that about 40 thousand people were sent to Hubei Province, and many of them are volunteers.

“They are mobilized, as in war, and they are driven by fear of the virus. They really saw themselves on the front lines of defense of the rest of China. And the whole world,” added B. Aylward.