Too much politics and not enough support for science has been the main cause for the inadequate response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Western countries, including the U.S.
Healthcare workers bring a patient into the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in the Brooklyn borough in New York, the United States, April 8, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua) -The United States accounts for less than 5 percent of the world's population, but its number of COVID-19 cases accounts for over 30 percent of the world.
“The United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) need our strong support if they are to effectively coordinate global anti-epidemic cooperation. In the meantime, efforts must be made to strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and safeguard the stability of global industrial and supply chains.
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently exerting impacts all over the world, obstructing global production and demand. Faced with the unprecedented challenge, the Chinese economy has withstood the test in the early phase, showing robust growth in the work resumption rate of major projects, as well as the purchasing managers' index in the manufacturing sector.
