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1 day ago · COVID-19, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was first detected in 2019 in Wuhan, China. A large proportion of infections in China were undocumented before travel restrictions and other control measures were implemented in late January 2020.
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3 days ago · COVID-19 has shown the world how fragile and interconnected our public health system is, and how poorly equipped the world is to manage a crisis of this magnitude.
2 days ago · 1 Introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023) was an unprecedented global event in our recent history. Beginning with the initial outbreak occurring in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020), the virus rapidly spread across the globe, causing millions of deaths and creating an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis unlike anything experienced over the ...
3 days ago · As of January 2023, taking into account likely COVID induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths. For the latest daily updates of cases, deaths, and death rates see COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country.
3 days ago · The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has raised serious concerns worldwide, particularly for emergency clinicians. This overview reviews and links the most authoritative early research and provides all the contacts and resources that can keep you continuously updated on this outbreak.
Jun 26, 2024 · The COVID-19 pandemic began in Asia in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and has spread widely through the continent. As of 26 June 2024, [49] at least one case of COVID-19 had been reported in every country in Asia except Turkmenistan .
1 day ago · In January 2020, coronavirus disease 2029 (COVID-19) was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHE) in the form of a pandemic [].A PHEIC warns of the possibility that the disease may spread across national borders and reinforces the need for countries to build their national plans and response protocols to the PHE [2,3,4].
