WUACD ON WEBINARS HIGHER EDUCATION’S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Professor Yu Chen, from State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China. With topic To Overcome the Pandemic of COVID-19: Viral identification, detection, transmission, and replication. Professor Yu Chen started with the history of Corona virus that was first founded in 1937 called IBV. This virus only attacked animals and birds. As the world changes, the virus developed into 4 types of coronavirus, such as alpha, beta, gamma, and delta that attack different creatures. But sadly, as the scientist said, the human-type-corona-virus is more complicated and has a more detailed structure than the animal one, this virus is judged more dangerous than the other. Professor Yu Chen also told the audience a history of the first corona outbreak that happened in Wuhan, China in 2019. One day, there were 2 patients infected with strange pneumonia. The first 1 week after the report, Chinese hospitals started their research about what makes the disease strange. They tried to identify the patient’s disease with a SARS-specific RT-PCR test. On the 6th day of the week, they found that it was a 2019-nCoV (genome: 29,881 nt). This virus type started to spread so quickly and became a world pandemic. Responding to this, 5 independent laboratories in China have identified and reported the sequence of SARS-COV-2, including the Wuhan University where Professor Yu Chen teaches. The common corona test kit, RT-PCR, actually didn’t give an accurate result in testing COVID. Responding to this issue, the Chinese scientist started to improve the RT-PCR to ddPCR that is more accurate. To avoid the overuse of the ddPCR kit, the Chinese government urges the public to always wear a mask because COVID-19 is spreading through droplets that fly in the air. while masks avoid us from the virus spread.