– No significant mutation to novel coronavirus after study of 104 strains, average patient age is 51, bats could be the hosts and pangolins could be intermediate hosts.

– Fatality of novel coronavirus in China is about 3-4 percent; excluding Hubei Province that figure drops to about 0.7 percent.

– 3,387 medics infected – 2,055 confirmed, 1,070 clinically diagnosed and 157 suspected cases. More than 90 percent of the confirmed cases are in Hubei Province.

– China's response to the outbreak has shifted the curve of the rapid rise in new confirmed cases of coronavirus, with an 80-percent drop in two weeks.

– Community transmission of coronavirus in other provinces outside Hubei has been limited, suggesting that traffic control measures in Wuhan and Hubei Province have effectively prevented the spread of the epidemic to the rest of the country and the world.

– The world needs China's experience on fighting against novel coronavirus, and should take novel coronavirus seriously; it is not SARS or influenza.

– China has given timely consideration to the actual situation in each place and its capacity to adjust the response measures against the outbreak, such as the temporary allocation and shifting of beds in hospitals to treat more infected patients.