The outbreak poses a serious challenge to China's national health emergency response capabilities, and is also a comprehensive test of the country's biological security system. The top political order on public health has demonstrated a competent national emergency response capacity in its efforts to end the epidemic. However, the emergency response capacity at the local and departmental level in a number of provinces and cities was below average3 , and various departments displayed unpreparedness, one of the main causes of the outbreak. Furthermore, rumors and conspiracy theories, centered upon the origin, scale, and magnitude of the epidemic4 , the misuse of outbreak for irrational purposes by extra-territorial countries, and COVID-19 as a bioweapon, have been circulating in affected countries across Asia since this virus was first discovered5 .