Table 3.

Chinese experts’ advice for preventing and controlling COVID-19

Aspects	Main advice
Publicity and education	To carry out various forms of publicity, including Internet publicity, TV programs, newspapers, books, comics, lectures, etc., so that people can fully understand the new crown pneumonia and how to effectively protect them
	To reducing social panic by unified voice of authoritative media
Various subjects	For ordinary people: to strictly control the flow of personnel
	For COVID-19 Patients: to be admitted to hospitals
	For asymptomatic and close contacts: to be isolated from home isolation mode to centralized isolation mode
	For non-COVID-19 other patients: to guarantee normal basic treatment decreasing secondary disasters
	For front-line medical staffs: to be trained before they are on duty, and be provided sufficient protection materials, salary and remuneration
	For the grass-roots staffs: to open the community prevention and control mechanism and strengthen the basic protective measures
	For scientific research: to strengthen international cooperation and scientific research, and strive for new progress in drug research, vaccine development and epidemiological investigation.
Medical materials	To meet the medical material needs of the hospitals for prevention and treatment of COVID-19
	To meet the ordinary people’s needs of prevention and control materials and basic daily necessities
	To guarantee the production, circulation and reserve of all medical materials for COVID-19
Policy and law construction	To severely punish those persons who disturb the stability of the market, such as driving up prices and hoarding
	To severely punish these persons who make rumor and fraud that cause public panic
	To severely punish the behavior of disobeying the management and escaping from the isolation area without permission
	To respect and protect the personal information, rights and interests of the COVID-19 affected population, and avoid privacy disclosure
	To avoid COVID-19 inducing district stigmatization and discrimination
	To fully take advantage of information and communications technology (ICT) in disease control, diagnosis and treatment
	To establish a long-term mechanism for infectious disease monitoring and public opinion surveillance
	To establishing a long-term mechanism for training public health global health and emergency professionals.