When the number of confirmed deaths in the country soared past 340 per million residents, or 100 times the rate in China, he realized that it was time to take action. While saying that although China had made missteps in its response to the outbreak at the beginning, they acknowledged that the world benefited from some of China's swift early actions. China's other actions, which included the ramping up of testing and contact tracing to isolate new cases, the rapid construction of temporary hospitals to treat patients, as well as the deployment of some 42,000 medical workers to Wuhan, enabled the country to largely control the virus' spread within Hubei.