Top Chinese COVID-19 expert calls for strengthened int'l communication

Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory disease expert and head of a top-level panel of scientists to help control the new coronavirus outbreak, has called for strengthened international communication on COVID-19 amid the global spread of the virus.

Zhong made the appeal at a press conference in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday. He warned that many countries are not taking the virus seriously at the moment.

The expert also stressed the need to strengthen control of imported COVID-19 cases to China, especially asymptomatic patients, through quarantine and nucleic acid testing.

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