A Chinese lawmaker from the region where the coronavirus originated proposed several measures to improve outbreak response time and to remedy reporting flaws exposed by the pandemic.
Zhou this week introduced nearly 29 amendments and proposals, which seek to prepare China for a major public health event and to continue supporting the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Among the changes, Zhou called for integrating disease control systems with health care providers, and to clarify the responsibility specific government agencies have in dealing with a potential outbreak.
Zhou's proposals also put forth"timeliness" requirements given that Chinese health officials were perpetually days, if not weeks, behind in putting containment measures in place. Chinese government health officials, particularly those overseeing the laboratories in Wuhan, have received international criticism forof at least eight doctors who were silenced or reprimanded. One doctor who issued warnings to health officials early on, Li Wenliang, later died from COVID-19.
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