K. Ruetzler, L. Szarpak, K. Filipiak, J. R. Ladny, J. Smereka
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The current pandemic has raised great global public health concern and the disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and 2019-nCoV was renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
Abstract
The current pandemic has raised great global public health concern. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) [1,2]. Meanwhile, 2019-nCoV was renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. SARS CoV-2 is considered highly contagious. As of April 1, 2020, more than 883,255 confirmed cases, including more than 44,156 deaths, have been reported worldwide, affecting almost the whole world.
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RUETZLER, K., et al. The COVID-19 pandemic — a view of the current state of the problem. Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal, 2020.