All Chi­nese or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions that have op­er­a­tions in T&T have ad­vised their staff of post­pon­ing trav­els be­tween Chi­na and T&T, says a re­lease from the Em­bassy of Chi­na.

The em­bassy re­it­er­at­ed its com­mit­ment to co­or­di­na­tion and close di­a­logue be­tween the em­bassy and the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties in T&T in or­der to en­sure the well-be­ing of cit­i­zens of both coun­tries in wake of the spread of the coro­n­avirus.

Am­bas­sador of the Peo­ple's Re­pub­lic of Chi­na to TT, Song Yu­min said Chi­na will con­tin­ue to work with the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) as well as with the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty in or­der to safe­guard re­gion­al and glob­al pub­lic health se­cu­ri­ty.

The re­lease stat­ed that the Na­tion­al Health Com­mis­sion of the Peo­ple's Re­pub­lic of Chi­na has re­port­ed 9,692 con­firmed cas­es of pneu­mo­nia and 213 deaths caused by the nov­el coro­n­avirus (2019n-C0V) as of Jan­u­ary 31, 2020.

A to­tal of 171 peo­ple have been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal af­ter re­cov­ery. Close mon­i­tor­ing of hu­man to hu­man trans­mis­sion con­tin­ues.

The Na­tion­al Health Com­mis­sion has so far traced a to­tal of 102,427 of these peo­ple, 4,201 of those traced have been re­leased from med­ical ob­ser­va­tion while 98,226 are still un­der ob­ser­va­tion by health pro­fes­sion­als.

As health au­thor­i­ties con­tin­ue to at­tach the great­est of im­por­tance to the mit­i­ga­tion and con­trol of the virus spread, the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na is con­fi­dent that the com­pre­hen­sive ac­tions be­ing tak­en will re­sult in the con­tain­ment of the nov­el coro­n­avirus and a peak in the fig­ures for con­firmed cas­es.

With on­ly the ma­jor­i­ty of cas­es and deaths oc­cur­ring in the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al Tedros Ad­hanom Ghe­breye­sus has con­tin­ued to ap­plaud the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na “for their com­mit­ment to trans­paren­cy, and the ef­forts made to in­ves­ti­gate and con­tain the cur­rent out­break.”

“WHO con­tin­ues to have con­fi­dence in Chi­na’s ca­pac­i­ty to con­trol the out­break. There is no rea­son for mea­sures that un­nec­es­sar­i­ly in­ter­fere with in­ter­na­tion­al trav­el and trade.

“There is no rea­son for mea­sures that un­nec­es­sar­i­ly in­ter­fere with in­ter­na­tion­al trav­el and trade.”