Abbreviations
2019-nCoV, or COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2 Novel coronavirus
CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention
ICT Information communications technology
WHO World Health Organization

Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Prof. Dan Cui from Global Health Institute, Wuhan University for her valuable comments. Special thanks to the invited reviewers as well for their insightful comments.

Authors’ contributions
LI H wrote the draft of the manuscript with the advice and after discussion with Chen XG. Huang H supported in data and literature collection, and language editing. The authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Funding
This work is supported by the journal development fund from Wuhan University.

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The authors all agreed the publication of this manuscript.

Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.