Bruce Aylward, head of WHO Experts Advance Team, praised China's approach to combat the COVID-19 at a joint press conference in Beijing, saying it has changed the course of a rapidly-escalating deadly epidemic.

The presser was held following a week-long inspection conducted by the joint WHO-China panel starting February 16.

They visited Beijing and Guangdong and Sichuan provinces as well as Wuhan City, the epicenter of the virus outbreak.