How the nations should gear up for future pandemics?

摘要

Health authorities from the city of Wuhan, China, informed World Health Organization (WHO) about an increase in pneumonia cases of unknown origin on December 31, 2019. Health authorities in China detected novel coronavirus as the causative agent for the pneumonia cases and the virus was initially named “2019-nCoV”, which was later renamed as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Owing to the virus virulence and its contagious nature, WHO declared novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. With the steep rise in number of people infected with the virus outside China, WHO stated the eruption as a pandemic on March 11, 2020 [1].