China on Monday published a timeline on how it has shared information and advanced international cooperation in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic.

The COVID-19 pneumonia has caused greater-than-expected impacts to the world, and to defeat it becomes the most pressing task of the whole world.

The death toll from COVID-19 exceeded 70,000 worldwide by 9:50 a.m. local time (1350 GMT) on Monday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

China has performed its duty and taken strong and effective measures at the earliest time possible.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to intensive care on Monday night after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, Downing Street said.

Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province, has significantly improved its medical waste handling capacity and achieved total treatment of newly-added waste within 24 hours.

The country’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) recently called on local customs authorities to ease customs transit for imports of epidemic prevention and control supplies and materials urgently needed by enterprises to resume work.