Open AccessCOVID-19 pandemic: from respect for science to investments in National Health Services
Author(s) -
Wilson Abreu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.20212261290
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , china , transmission (telecommunications) , capital city , economic growth , medicine , political science , disease , geography , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , outbreak , economic geography , electrical engineering , law , engineering
January 2020. The world has woken up to a worrying reality. The city of Wuhan, capital of the province of Hubei, China, was struggling with a new virus with enormous transmission capacity. COVID-19 is a severe respiratory disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan