Emergency management measures on COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison between China and Europe

The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been challenging for the emergency management capacity of global public health systems. During the past ten months, China successfully suppressed the expanding trend of COVID-19 via adopting the most extensive, stringent, and thorough containment measures, despite of sporadic outbreaks. European countries experienced a rapid increase of confirmed cases during March to April, 2020 and a relative decrease during the summer, and is currently being observed with another wave of increase in COVID-19 incidence. In this review, two regional guidance series for epidemic prevention, namely, China proposed Epidemic Prevention and Control Protocols for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia, and Rapid Risk Assessment series published by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, were compared in structure, contents and performance for providing references to the development of emergency management measures on similar pandemic outbreaks in the future.