Zhong Nanshan, a renowned Chinese respiratory scientist, said person-to-person transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is still happening in Wuhan, of central China's Hubei Province, the center of the epidemic.
Zhong, speaking at a press conference in Guangdong Province on combating virus on Tuesday, stressed the importance for Wuhan to distinguish healthy people from infected patients, and also to distinguish COVID-19 infection from common flu.
"It's urgent to differentiate those two issues or person-to-person won't stop in Wuhan," Zhong said, adding what Wuhan could achieve plays a vital role in the national fight against the epidemic.
Zhong told reporters work and research are speeding up on medicines to treat this new virus and Chloroquine phosphate has shown good clinical efficacy.
"Chloroquine is not really a kind of medicine with a special effect, but it is worthy of studying," Zhong said.
