China’s New Biosecurity Law to Improve Disease and Virus Outbreak Response

Disease prevention agencies are also to help predict the occurrence and prevalence of emerging diseases.

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Based on these predictions, authorities should announce warnings and adopt prevention measures.

Although Beijing established an information system after the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak that allowed for real-time reports of outbreaks, provincial authorities came under fire during the coronavirus outbreak for perceived incompetence, including delays in announcing the public health emergency.

The new biosecurity law also takes aim at the management of research facilities, flagging the need for emergency plans for biosafety incidents. 

(Writer & Editor: BYS/APJ/MTP, Agence France-Presse)

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