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The disease spreads quickly, China loosens the management and treatment of people with COVID-19

Thai Binh (TV reporter in China)Wednesday, March 16, 2022 17:34 GMT+7

Teachers and students line up for nucleic acid testing at a school in Jiangsu province, eastern China on March 15. Photo: VCG.

This month alone, the number of people infected with COVID-19 in China was almost equal to the whole year, with more than 15,000 cases in 28/31 provinces and autonomous regions.

China has just announced a new diagnostic and treatment protocol with many changes. For people with mild COVID-19 only for centralized management and treatment, there is no need to go to a designated hospital as before. Because most mild cases do not require much medical intervention. After recovering from the disease, just follow up at home for 1 week, instead of 2 weeks as before.

In addition, the acceptance of people to self-test with antigen rapid test kits also helps to reduce the burden on the health sector. Besides a domestic monoclonal antibody drug, China also approved Pfizer’s oral treatment Paxlovid for the first time.

China’s National Health Commission said that the current epidemic is complicated, making it difficult to control the epidemic. However, with the Omicron variant, the “dynamic Zero Covid” policy combining targeted blockade, mass testing and rapid isolation still proves effective.

Currently, nearly 37 million people out of a total of 1 billion 400 million people in China in 13 cities and counties are living in the blockade area to varying degrees.

China began to relax regulations on treatment as well as only a targeted blockade to reduce the load on the medical industry. China’s top epidemiologist emphasized that only when vaccination coverage for the elderly is covered and the protective effectiveness of vaccines is increased, the process of loosening disease control will take place strongly.

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