East Asia Watch
Time to treat China's ailing healthcare system
Underlying imbalance in primary care system and failure of surveillance programme contributed to the coronavirus epidemic
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It was early January, and it was already known to the Wuhan city authorities that there was human-to-human transmission of the Covid-19 disease as some healthcare workers were infected.
But this information was suppressed at the time, as was the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.
