DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 12 -- SINCE the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) in December 2019, the Chinese government has taken tremendous efforts to address it, including imposition of travel restrictions in Hubei province and beyond and extension of Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.
Other measures include closing down unessential public places, monitoring people's body temperature at airports and other public venues, identifying the pathogen and sharing the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus with the World Health Organisation (WTO) and other countries, pooling various resources to Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, building new hospitals in Wuhan to receive NCP patients, etc.
These efforts have significantly reduced the...