A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China

Abstract Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, Zhejiang has become the province with the largest number of cases. The aim of this article is to present Zhejiang province’s experience of establishing an accurate and smart control mechanism for epidemic prevention and control and r...

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Autores principales:	Fan He, Xiaopeng Shang, Feng Ling, Zhiping Chen, Tiehong Fu, Junfen Lin, Zhen Wang
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d42d3bf324f44711be61d2b7c46a7a802021-12-02T18:25:04ZA practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China10.1038/s41598-021-90808-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d42d3bf324f44711be61d2b7c46a7a802021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90808-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, Zhejiang has become the province with the largest number of cases. The aim of this article is to present Zhejiang province’s experience of establishing an accurate and smart control mechanism for epidemic prevention and control and resumption of work and production using a ‘five-colour epidemic chart’. The number of confirmed cases, proportion of local cases, and occurrence of clustered outbreaks were used as evaluation indicators to calculate the county-level epidemic risk and were assigned different weight coefficients; the absence of cases for 3 and 7 consecutive days was used as the adjustment index. When the first chart was published on February 9, there were 1 very-high-risk, 12 high-risk, and 12 low-risk counties. Under the five-colour chart, Zhejiang began to adopt precise measures to prevent and control the epidemic and resume work and production. By February 24, the low-risk counties had expanded to 82, with no high-risk and very-high-risk counties. The epidemic situation in Zhejiang province has been effectively controlled. The experience of epidemic prevention and control in Zhejiang is worthy to be emulated and learned by other countries and regions.Fan HeXiaopeng ShangFeng LingZhiping ChenTiehong FuJunfen LinZhen WangNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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description	Abstract Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, Zhejiang has become the province with the largest number of cases. The aim of this article is to present Zhejiang province’s experience of establishing an accurate and smart control mechanism for epidemic prevention and control and resumption of work and production using a ‘five-colour epidemic chart’. The number of confirmed cases, proportion of local cases, and occurrence of clustered outbreaks were used as evaluation indicators to calculate the county-level epidemic risk and were assigned different weight coefficients; the absence of cases for 3 and 7 consecutive days was used as the adjustment index. When the first chart was published on February 9, there were 1 very-high-risk, 12 high-risk, and 12 low-risk counties. Under the five-colour chart, Zhejiang began to adopt precise measures to prevent and control the epidemic and resume work and production. By February 24, the low-risk counties had expanded to 82, with no high-risk and very-high-risk counties. The epidemic situation in Zhejiang province has been effectively controlled. The experience of epidemic prevention and control in Zhejiang is worthy to be emulated and learned by other countries and regions.
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author	Fan He Xiaopeng Shang Feng Ling Zhiping Chen Tiehong Fu Junfen Lin Zhen Wang
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title	A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China
title_short	A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China
title_full	A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China
title_fullStr	A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China
title_full_unstemmed	A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China
title_sort	practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of covid-19 and resumption of work in zhejiang province, china
publisher	Nature Portfolio
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A practice of using five-colour chart to guide the control of COVID-19 and resumption of work in Zhejiang Province, China

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