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Li Wenliang (Chinese: 李文亮; 12 October 1985 – 7 February 2020) was a Chinese ophthalmologist who warned his colleagues about early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan. [3]On 30 December 2019, Wuhan Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (Wuhan CDC) issued emergency warnings to local hospitals about a number of mysterious "pneumonia" cases discovered in the city in the previous week. [4]
Shen Hongbing is the current Director of Chinese CDC. [1]The CCDC administers a number of laboratories across China, including the biosafety level 2 facility at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (sometimes confused with the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology), [6] which received global media coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic for its research into SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origin.
[95] Thus, Wuhan became a locked-down area of a Class A Infectious Disease according to The Law on Prevention and Treatment of Infections Diseases. [96] Last train leaving Dazhi Road Metro station at 10:00AM when the lockdown officially began on January 23.
[180] [181] Chongqing also announced mandatory screening of every person who arrived from Wuhan since 1 January, and set up 3 treatment centers. [ 182 ] Since 1 February 2020, a curfew law that resembles that of Huanggang , Hubei, was put in place by the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang, which is the second largest center after Hubei.
76 Days is a 2020 Chinese-American documentary film directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third. [1] Set in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it captures the struggles and human resilience [2] [3] in the battle to survive the spread of the disease in Wuhan, China.
In Wuhan, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020, general medical institutions and the newly expanded pneumonia specialist hospital were overwhelmed by the sudden surge in hospital bed demands by suspected COVID-19 cases. [6]
The first wave of the disease manifested as the 2019–2020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China, beginning with a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases, mostly related to the Huanan Seafood Market, in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. It was first reported to the local government on 27 December 2019, and published on 31 December.
Liang Wudong (Chinese: 梁武东; pinyin: Liáng Wǔdōng; 14 March 1959 – 25 January 2020) [1] was a physician at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei, notable for being the first doctor to die from COVID-19 due to a nosocomial infection. [2]