Strengthening Community Defenses to Prevent and Control the Spread of COVID-19 in China

Xia Li; Zhuona Zhang; Keyang Lyu; Dongqun Xu

doi:10.46234/ccdcw2022.030

Strengthening Community Defenses to Prevent and Control the Spread of COVID-19 in China

China CDC Wkly. 2022 Mar 11;4(10):191-194. doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2022.030.

Authors

Xia Li^{1

2}, Zhuona Zhang^{1

2}, Keyang Lyu¹, Dongqun Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
² Department of Environmental Microbiology, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.

Abstract

In light of the severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) around the world, it is an arduous task for China to prevent COVID-19 from being imported from abroad and proliferating domestically. The community is the first and most effective line of defense and can effectively cut off the channels of spread of the epidemic. In order to reduce risks of COVID-19 transmission in the community, it is necessary to sort out the loopholes in risk and management, as well as investigate previous epidemic transmission events in the community.

Keywords: COVID-19; prevention and control measures; transmission; urban community; village.

Copyright and License information: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2022.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

Supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 92043201)