（11）3月2日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平在北京考察新冠肺炎防控科研攻关工作，强调要把新冠肺炎防控科研攻关作为一项重大而紧迫任务，在坚持科学性、确保安全性的基础上加快研发进度，为打赢疫情防控的人民战争、总体战、阻击战提供强大科技支撑；指出尽最大努力挽救更多患者生命是当务之急、重中之重，要加强药物、医疗装备研发和临床救治相结合，切实提高治愈率、降低病亡率；强调要加快推进已有的多种技术路线疫苗研发，争取早日推动疫苗的临床试验和上市使用；指出要把生物安全作为国家总体安全的重要组成部分，加强疫病防控和公共卫生科研攻关体系和能力建设。

　　（12）3月3日，国家卫生健康委发布《新型冠状病毒肺炎诊疗方案（试行第七版）》，在传播途径、临床表现、诊断标准等多个方面作出修改和完善，强调加强中西医结合。

(11)March 2: President Xi inspected several scientific institutions in Beijing, observing their research and development on Covid-19 prevention and control. He said that this work must be taken as a major and pressing task and proceed as speedily as possible, while abiding by the rules of science and ensuring safety, so as to provide strong scientific and technological support for overcoming the epidemic.

Xi Jinping pointed out that saving as many lives as possible, by every possible means, was the number one priority. Research on and development of medicines and medical equipment should be integrated with clinical treatment, with the twin goals of raising the cure rate and lowering the fatality rate. Development of vaccines should be expedited through multiple approaches, so as to make them available for clinical trial and application as quickly as possible.

The president said that biosecurity should be an important part of the holistic approach to national security, and he called for efforts to enhance China’s scientific research capacity regarding epidemic prevention and control and public health.

(12)March 3: The NHC released Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for Covid-19 (Trial Version 7), which made modifications in the determination of transmission routes and clinical symptoms, updated diagnostic criteria, and emphasized the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in treating the disease.

　　（13）3月4日，中共中央总书记习近平主持召开中共中央政治局常务委员会会议，指出要加快建立同疫情防控相适应的经济社会运行秩序，完善相关举措，巩固和拓展来之不易的良好势头；强调要持续用力加强湖北省和武汉市疫情防控工作，继续保持“内防扩散、外防输出”的防控策略。

　　（14）3月6日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平出席决战决胜脱贫攻坚座谈会，指出到2020年现行标准下的农村贫困人口全部脱贫，是中共中央向全国人民作出的郑重承诺，必须如期实现；强调要以更大决心、更强力度推进脱贫攻坚，坚决克服新冠肺炎疫情影响，坚决夺取脱贫攻坚战全面胜利，坚决完成这项对中华民族、对人类都具有重大意义的伟业。

(13)March 4: Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He emphasized the need to quickly bring order to economic and social development in the context of epidemic control, improve relevant measures, and consolidate and extend the country’s hard-won progress. Wuhan and Hubei must continue their epidemic control, and continue the measures for preventing the virus from spreading within their local area or beyond.

(14)March 6: Xi Jinping attended a symposium on securing a decisive victory in poverty alleviation. He pointed out that the solemn pledge to lift all rural people living below current poverty line out of poverty by 2020 had been made by the CPC Central Committee to the whole nation, and it must be fulfilled on schedule. He called for greater determination and intensity in advancing poverty alleviation, and highlighted the need to offset the impact of the epidemic in order to clinch a complete victory over poverty – a cause of such tremendous importance to China and all of humanity.

　　（15）3月6日，全国新增本土确诊病例数降至100例以下，11日降至个位数。

　　（16）3月7日，国家卫生健康委发布《新型冠状病毒肺炎防控方案（第六版）》。

　　（17）3月10日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平赴湖北省武汉市考察疫情防控工作，指出经过艰苦努力，湖北和武汉疫情防控形势发生积极向好变化，取得阶段性重要成果，但疫情防控任务依然艰巨繁重，要慎终如始、再接再厉、善作善成，坚决打赢湖北保卫战、武汉保卫战；指出武汉人民识大体、顾大局，不畏艰险、顽强不屈，自觉服从疫情防控大局需要，主动投身疫情防控斗争，作出了重大贡献；指出抗击疫情有两个阵地，一个是医院救死扶伤阵地，一个是社区防控阵地，要充分发挥社区在疫情防控中的重要作用，使所有社区成为疫情防控的坚强堡垒；强调打赢疫情防控人民战争要紧紧依靠人民，把群众发动起来，构筑起群防群控的人民防线。

(15)March 6: The daily increase in the number of domestic cases on the Chinese mainland dropped below 100, and fell further to single digits on March 11.

(16)March 7: The NHC released Protocol on Prevention and Control of Covid-19 (Edition 6).

(17)March 10: Xi Jinping went to Wuhan to inspect work on epidemic control. He acknowledged that the situation in Hubei and Wuhan was improving and that hard work had delivered important results, and pointed out that the task remained arduous. He encouraged the people to persevere in their efforts and win the battles against the virus in Hubei and Wuhan. He praised residents in Wuhan for considering the national interest and the general situation. They had proved themselves indomitable and resilient, and they had consciously subordinated their needs to the overall interests of epidemic control, joined the battle against the epidemic, and made a huge contribution.

He pointed out that there were two fronts in the battle against the epidemic: the hospital and the community – the life-saving front and the epidemic prevention and control front. Communities should play their key role in epidemic prevention and control, and every community should serve as a bastion of defense against the virus. He called for a general mobilization, putting in place a defense line across the whole of society and relying on the people to win the battle.

　　（18）3月11日，世界卫生组织总干事谭德塞表示，新冠肺炎疫情已具有大流行特征。

　　（19）3月11日至17日，全国每日新增本土确诊病例数维持在个位数。总体上，中国本轮疫情流行高峰已经过去，新增发病数持续下降，疫情总体保持在较低水平。

　　（20）3月17日，首批42支国家援鄂医疗队撤离武汉。

(18)March 11: WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced, “We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.”

(19)March 11 to 17: The daily increase in the number of domestic cases on the Chinese mainland remained in single digits. The epidemic peak had passed in China as a whole, with the number of new cases steadily declining and the epidemic comfortably under control.

(20) March 17: Forty-two medical teams from around the country left Wuhan, having completed their mission there.