(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Zhang Wenhong: Vaccines are expected to end the new coronavirus pandemic and continue to complete large-scale vaccination
China News Agency, Beijing, June 24 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, stated at the 2021 Caixin Summer Summit on the 24th that large-scale vaccination will continue to be completed.
Zhang Wenhong said that in the past year, China has adopted very powerful non-pharmaceutical interventions to quickly and effectively control the local epidemic
"Under the current situation, once China relaxes its control, the epidemic is bound to make a comeback," Zhang Wenhong said.
Official data show that China's new crown vaccination dose has exceeded 1 billion doses, becoming the first country in the world to receive 1 billion doses of new crown vaccine.
Zhang Wenhong said that the results of the epidemiological model calculations believe that based on the current role of vaccines and the speed of vaccination, if China has completed 80% of the population and can maintain a moderate level of non-pharmaceutical interventions, that is, maintain a certain degree of wear and tear.
Zhang Wenhong said that at present, scientists around the world generally believe that the possibility of eliminating infectious diseases is very small
"I believe that the preparations for the COVID-19 pandemic are the same both at home and abroad recently," Zhang Wenhong said.
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