China's decreases of the COVID-19 infections by 67 fold: Nature

If China did nothing to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, there could have been more than seven million COVID-19 patients in the country by late February, according to a report published on the Nature magazine on Monday.

Titled "Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China", the report was composed by multiple research teams from universities and organizations include the University of Southampton, Fudan University, Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Through modeling, researchers found that the three main non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) taken by the Chinese government not only stopped the development of pandemic in China but also bought time for the world.

Without the strong combination of NPIs, the number of COVID-19 cases in China could have increased 67 fold to more than seven million, the report said.

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