Chapter 1 Diagnosis and Treatment Plan of Corona Virus Disease 2019

(Tentative Sixth Edition)

Since December 2019, an increasing number of cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia(NCP)have been diagnosed in Wuhan, Hubei Province. With the spreading of the epidemic, cases(officially named as Corona Virus Disease 2019 [COVID-19] by WHO)have also been reported in other regions of China and abroad. COVID-19 was urgently classified, by the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases as Class B communicable diseases, and is managed as Class A communicable diseases. With the in-depth understanding and accumulation of diagnosis and treatment experience of COVID-19, the Diagnosis and Treatment Plan of Corona Virus Disease 2019(the Tentative Fifth Revised Edition)was revised and formed the current tentative sixth edition.