China promotes measures to control COVID-19

Meanwhile in Hubei, authorities are stepping up screening in the community to detect infected patients. All residents were required to stay indoors while staff and doctors come to every house to check, especially those related to patients.

All people who have a fever or have close contact with the patient must be tested promptly. The goal of this campaign is to ensure that no patients among nearly 60 million people were left in the community.

On Tuesday, the National Medical Products Administration of China approved the first anti-viral drug against the coronavirus causing Covid-19. The drug called Fapilavir allegedly demonstrated efficacy with minor side effects in an ongoing 70-patient clinical trial in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.