A new report assessing the effectiveness of China’s emergency response during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak suggests that measures such as the travel ban may have prevented more than 700,000 cases outside Wuhan. “The number of confirmed cases in China by day 50 (February 19) of the epidemic was around 30,000,” notes Prof.
Christopher Dye, from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Prof. Dye and colleagues, who hail from several other international institutions, have recently issued a report analyzing the effectiveness and impact of the national emergency measures implemented by Chinese authorities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. “Our analysis suggests that without the Wuhan travel ban and the national emergency