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When have the global covid-19 cases been substantively controlled? In response, Professor Zhang Wenhong, the leader of the Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Expert Group, recently judged that the number of patients will decrease after this summer, but sporadic patients will continue to appear and continue until this winter. Then, next spring, there may be a small peak, and then slowly fall back. It is not ruled out that the northern and southern hemispheres communicate with each other. Since there are fewer cases in the northern hemisphere in summer and winter in the southern hemisphere, cases will be transferred to each other. Back and forth, even if it will last a year or two. In other words, the epidemic may last for a year or two.

So, does this patient with new coronary pneumonia next year have a reliable research basis? In the long run, how will we respond to the epidemic?

Will covid-19 become a seasonal infectious disease? Ding Sheng, dean of the School of Pharmacy of Tsinghua University and director of the Global Health Drug Development Center (GHDDI), said: "Because the new coronavirus is relatively contagious, it is made at this point. The judgment is reasonable."