COVID-19 infection epidemic: the medical management strategies in Heilongjiang Province, China
Hongliang Wang, Sicong Wang, Kaijiang Yu
Abstract
In late December 2019, an outbreak of the 2019-novel coronavirus (COVID-19) caused a substantial public health crisis in Wuhan, China, and then expeditiously spread all over China As of March 4, 2020, 80,409 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in mainland China While in Heilongjiang province, which locates in northeastern China with 38.24 million residents and an area of 473,000 km 2 , all of its 13 cities were affected, making it one of the most serious areas for the outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Up to February 23, 2020, there were 480 confirmed cases of COVID-19; however, no newly diagnosed cases since then. Most of the infected patients were male and there were 13 deaths (2.7%). A series of protocols had been established since the first confirmed case emerged, and we herein summarize our experience from Heilongjiang province in dealing with COVID-19.