World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sohrabi, Catrin; Alsafi, Zaid; O’Neill, Niamh; Khan, Mehdi; Kerwan, Ahmed; Al‐Jabir, Ahmed; Iosifidis, Christos; Agha, Riaz

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.02.034

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World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Published in International Journal of Surgery • Feb 26, 2020

Authors:

Catrin Sohrabi

Zaid Alsafi

Niamh O’Neill

Abstract

An unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan City, Hubei province in China emerged in December 2019. A novel coronavirus was identified as the causative agent and was subsequently termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Considered a relative of severe acute re...

Subject

Outbreak

Medicine

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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