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By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington virus, and work is underway on a and XIN ZHIMING vaccine. So let’s say for this quarter and ZHOU LANXU in Beijing there will very likely be a negative impact. What would happen Major international financial beyond this quarter we must institutions said on Monday that observe and assess,” Georgieva said. they support China’s policies to “Stay strong China! Stay strong restore economic activities and are Wuhan!” the Bulgarian economist Medical workers escort patients infected with the novel coronavirus to Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Tuesday. confident in the country’s economic said in Chinese. The hospital, which was built in 10 days, has started to admit patients infected with the virus. XIAO YIJIU / XINHUA resilience despite its current chal­ In a posting on social media, the lenges brought by the outbreak of World Bank expressed on Monday the novel coronavirus. “sympathies to all affected by the Economists said that the world’s serious situation related to the coro­ second­largest economy should take navirus”. The Chinese authorities Key meeting emphasizes treating all patients more focused and targeted actions have the policy space to act and they to bail out those most seriously hit have announced major liquidity By XU WEI alone reported 13,522 infections medical workers will be granted the statement said, adding that sectors and enterprises and offset injection, which should help miti­ [email protected] with 414 deaths. more rest to protect their physical imported medical resources that the economic shocks caused by the gate the costs to economic growth, The government will requisition and mental health, the statement comply with related standards must pneumonia­causing epidemic. said Martin Raiser, the bank’s coun­ A meeting chaired by Premier Li a number of hotels and other said. be put to use as soon as possible. The International Monetary Fund try director for China. Keqiang in Beijing on Tuesday venues for purposes of receiving The meeting also highlighted the The meeting also underlined the said on Monday that it supports Chi­ “We are also monitoring the wider adopted measures to enable more and treating patients with mild need to boost the diagnostic test importance of coordinating key na’s efforts to contain the coronavi­ economic and social impacts of this patients infected with the novel symptoms or for medical observa­ capacity in Wuhan to reduce test­ businesses, especially central State­ rus outbreak and it is confident that crisis,” the World Bank said in a state­ coronavirus in Hubei province and tion of close contacts, said a state­ ing times, with measures to allow owned enterprises, to step up their the country’s economy is resilient. ment. “We support China’s efforts to especially Wuhan to obtain treat­ ment released after the meeting. for eligible third­party institutions production of key items. “We support China’s efforts to respond, including its efforts to ment, improve recovery rates and Some multi­specialty hospitals to conduct nucleic acid tests. Transport networks must be respond by taking measures with all maintain resilience in its economy.” reduce fatalities. will be transformed into dedicat­ It also called for further refining unimpeded to improve the effi­ the strength of its health system, but Participants at the meeting of ed hospitals to receive infected of diagnostic and treatment meth­ ciency of resource distribution also by the recent fiscal, monetary See Economy, page 3 the leading group of the Commu­ people, and the government will ods so that therapies already and ensure market supply, the and financial actions. We are confi­ nist Party of China Central Com­ build a number of makeshift hos­ proved effective can be included in statement said. dent in the resilience of China’s Inside mittee on coping with the pitals and assign another 2,000 standard medical procedures. The meeting called for the State economy,” said IMF Managing outbreak reiterated that helping medical workers to support epi­ Participants at the meeting also Council’s mechanism for coordi­ Director Kristalina Georgieva. • See more, pages 3­6, 8, 13 Hubei and its provincial capital, demic control and prevention called for resolute steps to concen­ nated control and prevention to be “China has taken very dramatic • Editorial, page 10 the epicenter of the outbreak, are efforts in Hubei, the statement trate treatment and protection refined to better manage the sup­ actions to restrict the spread of the • Comment, page 11 top priorities in curbing the con­ said. resources at the outbreak’s front ply and demand balance of medi­ tagion. Authorities will send more high­ line, saying that the supply of key cal resources and ensure better As of Monday, the number of caliber medical teams to take over necessities must be ensured. coordinated distribution of key confirmed cases of novel corona­ hospitals or inpatient wards that Producers of protective gowns and resources on a daily basis. Wuhan stays strong as many virus rose to 20,438 on the Chi­ receive critically ill patients, it surgical masks were urged to return The transport network must be nese mainland, including 425 said. to maximum production capacity as better coordinated to reduce travel deaths, with 2,788 people in criti­ Medical treatment at the prima­ soon as possible and to further congestion after the Spring Festival foreign students remain cal condition. Hubei province ry level will be bolstered, and expand their production capacity, holiday, the statement said.

By WANG XIAODONG in Wuhan has tried to share the latest coro­ [email protected] navirus information with other Timely accommodation international students, calm their Resource shortages raise After the authorities in Wuhan, nerves and even has taken out the Central China’s largest city, trash for people who are afraid to announced the city was isolating go outside. risk of death, official says itself in late January, Gerard Buis, a student of international eco­ Quarantined metropolis By WANG XIAOYU receive infected patients in severe nomics at Huazhong University of Since the outbreak was first and HOU LIQIANG condition house a total of 110 beds in Science and Technology, received reported in Wuhan, capital of Hubei their intensive care units, which far an email from the Netherlands’ province, in December, it has spread The mortality rate for known from meets the demand,” she said. embassy in Beijing asking him to to all other provincial areas of China cases of the novel coronavirus is “The remaining seriously ill call them. and some other countries, with new significantly higher in Wuhan, patients are then allocated to Buis called the embassy and was confirmed cases still rising rapidly Hubei province, the epicenter of about 20 medical institutions told an airplane would fly to Wuhan across the nation. the outbreak, than other parts of across the city, which may not be to evacuate all citizens of the Neth­ To contain the outbreak in the country — a gap that health able to provide sufficient profes­ erlands. He declined to take the Wuhan, which has a population of officials and experts are racing to sional care from intensive care opportunity. more than 11 million, the city sus­ close by ramping up medical assist­ staff,” Jiao said. “This has also “I really want to stay here,” he pended on Jan 23 its entire public ance and enhancing the region’s weakened the city’s capability to said. “Out of love for my Chinese transport system — including bus­ critical care capability. save critically ill patients.” girlfriend, out of solidarity with the es, subway and ferry — to minimize The mortality rate — total deaths To address the shortage, the com­ Chinese people. And I want to stay human­to­human transmission of as a proportion of the number of mission has recently assigned three here because I think the virus can be the highly infectious virus. The confirmed cases — is running at 2.1 other hospitals in Wuhan to focus on overcome.” suspension came just two days Workers make up a bed at the Wuhan Parlor convention center percent on the Chinese mainland, treating severe cases of the new Enthusiastic about volunteer before Lunar New Year. Tianhe in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Tuesday. The city has converted down from 2.3 percent at the onset virus. They are designed to accom­ work, and having previously been International Airport and all rail­ the facility and two other venues — Wuhan International Con­ of the outbreak, the National Health modate a total of 1,000 patients a volunteer in the Netherlands way stations in the city were also vention and Exhibition Center and Hongshan Stadium — into Commission said on Tuesday. requiring special care. and Belgium, Buis joined volun­ closed unless for emergency use. three new hospitals to treat people testing positive for the novel In Hubei province, the death rate About 3,000 doctors and nurses teer efforts in Wuhan to fight the coronavirus but showing no severe symptoms. of confirmed infections averages at specializing in providing intensive novel coronavirus outbreak. He See City, page 5 YUAN ZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY See story, page 5 3.1 percent, while in Wuhan, the pro­ care will be deployed to take charge vincial capital, where the disease of wards receiving patients in a seri­ first surfaced, the mortality rate is ous condition, the commission said. estimated to be around 4.9 percent, “A new team composed of the FANS DO THEIR BIT FOR NATIONAL EFFORT according to the commission. presidents or leading Party officials ◆ After excluding infections and of 16 hospitals across the country fatalities reported in Hubei, the has also gathered and is on standby. Netizens praise quick response to outbreak death rate in 30 other provincial­ It is intended to improve the man­ level regions on the mainland agement of intensive care units in By CHEN NAN in Wuhan, Hubei province, the dropped to 0.16 percent, according Wuhan and drive down the mortal­ [email protected] epicenter of the novel coronavi­ to Jiao Yahui, deputy chief of the ity rate in the city,” Jiao said. rus outbreak. commission’s medical administra­ Li Lanjuan, a member of the com­ he unruly behavior of On Jan 24, Lunar New Year’s tion and supervision department. mission’s senior­level expert panel, fans trying to catch a Eve, Tangtang, a fan of actor A dire shortage of intensive care said in an interview with China Cen­ INSIDE glimpse of their idols Deng Lun, along with another specialists and hospital beds has tral Television on Monday night that often makes for the Others stalk celebrity perform­ supporter, known as Daqi, contributed to the higher mortality the outbreak is nearing its peak. Science fiction Twrong type of headlines. ers at their hotels. approached more than 10,000 rate in Wuhan, Jiao said. Screaming supporters fre­ However, one recent headline medical supply stores on e­com­ “The three hospitals designated to See Mortality, page 3 writers explore quently jostle at airports, caus­ was truly inspiring. More than merce platforms, such as Taobao galaxy of plots ing disruption. Some are even 300 Chinese fan groups have and JD, to buy masks and protec­ © 2020 China Daily ,All Rights Reserved bolder, booking first­class seats joined forces to raise funds to tive suits to donate to hospitals in Vol.24 — No. 7098 Youth, p16 on flights to enable them to get obtain surgical masks, protective Wuhan. closer to stars to take their pic­ suits and other vital supplies to A member of the tures and ask for autographs. donate to medical professionals See Supporters, page 2 Asia News Network