Qingqing Shan
Running title: Community Workers in The Epidemic
Authorship: Chengdu First hosp, Dept Resp Med, Chengdu 610041,
Sichuan, Peoples R China
Correspondence to Qingqing Shan, Chengdu First People’s Hospital, No.18,
Wangxiang North Road, High-Tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Peoples
R China; Shanqingqing52377@126.com
Contributors : Shan QQ developed the concept for the manuscript
and was responsible for all writing.
Ethics Statement: No ethical approval.
Conflict of Interest Statement : None declared
Data Availability Statement: No data, models, or code were
generated or used during the study.
Summary: In this article, we evaluated the challenges and
responsibilities of community workers in the new global coronavirus
outbreak. As we are known that medical staff are saving lives, while
community workers are providing a variety of services to the residents
which is significantly critical to ensure early detection, early
reporting, early diagnosis, early isolation, and early treatment of the
disease. In China where the 2019 nCOV outbreak is being brought under
control, community work has played a huge role. The sharing of these
experiences is expected to help other countries in the outbreak.
Keywords: Challenges and Responsibilities, Community Workers,
New Coronavirus Outbreak
Main Text: On 29 December 2019 clinicians in a hospital in
Wuhan City, China noticed a clustering of cases of unusual pneumonia.
Within 4 weeks, by 26 January 2020, the causative organism had been
identified as a novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)(Bassetti, Vena, &
Giacobbe, 2020)(Bassetti, Vena, & Giacobbe,
2020)[1]. Overall, 196,979 cases of 2019-nCoV
infection have been diagnosed in more than 100 worldwide countries[2].
The outbreak of the 2019-nCoV virus
has coincided with Chinese Lunar New
Year, when tens of millions of people travel for the Spring Festival
holiday during the world’s largest annual human migration. Travellers
give wings to novel coronavirus. Thanks to China’s efforts that they
have effectively contained the cross-border spread of the 2019-nCoV.
(Wilson & Chen, 2020)(Wilson & Chen, 2020)[3]
Medicine staff make great effort to prevent and control the epidemic
disease, and so do community service workers. AS of Sunday, 53
community workers had died in the line of duty in China’s prevention and
control of the 2019-nCoV epidemic, according to the Ministry of Civil
Affairs [4]. In the fight against 2019-nCoV,
community workers have been facing enormous pressure, including a high
risk of infection and inadequate protection from contamination,
overwork, frustration, patients with negative emotions, a lack of
contact with their families, and exhaustion. Thanks to community
workers, the virus transmission route is cut off and the emergence of
new cases is effectively curbed.
Community-based measures are the
foundation of prevention and control. The outbreak came so fierce and
last so long that
tens of thousands of people in
mainland China were confirmed to have the disease,
and hundreds
had died. 2019-nCoV is
a highly contagious virus, and
personnel mobility gives wings to virus. However in the case of novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV), antiviral treatment and vaccination are not
available(Khan, Siddique, Ali, Xue, & Nabi, 2020)(Khan, Siddique, Ali,
Xue, & Nabi, 2020)[5]. Thus, to contain the
further spread of infection, quarantine, and limitation the mobility of
confirmed and suspected cases are key factors. (Khan, Siddique, et al.,
2020)(Khan, Siddique, et al., 2020)[5] Community
workers play an important role in the prevention and control of
2019-nCOV.