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.