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Volunteers wearing face masks stand next to vegetables to be delivered to residents of a residential area in Wuhan.
- In China, where the novel coronavirus originated, cases of COVID-19 have steadily declined since peaking in mid-February.
- But other countries shouldn't expect their rates of infection to decline as quickly since China took some extreme measures to contain the virus that other countries haven't, shouldn't, or won't.
- Here are some of those measures, including hospitals built in days, not weeks, rapid testing protocols, and technology that attempted to trace all 80,000-plus cases.
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The novel coronavirus is slowing down across China, just as the pandemic accelerates rapidly elsewhere around the world. On Sunday, there were just 27 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the country where the disease originated, in the city of Wuhan, last year, while elsewhere around the world, 10,955 new cases were diagnosed.
A recent multilateral mission to China by health authorities from around the globe has revealed the rest of the world "is simply not ready" to tackle the coronavirus with the speed and seriousness that China has, as the World Health Organization's Dr. Bruce Aylward, who led the international team of 25 health experts, told reporters upon his return.
"Hundreds of thousands of people in China did not get COVID-19 because of this aggressive response," Aylward said, adding that the techniques were "old-fashioned public-health tools" but applied "with a rigor and innovation of approach on a scale that we've never seen in history."
At the same time, professors, journalists and doctors in China have been silenced and disappeared, after they've shared vital information about the coronavirus outbreak - without the consent of the Chinese government.
Here are 11 of the dramatic - and draconian - disease-fighting tools that China has used to end the spread of the new coronavirus.