Open AccessEthical comments on COVID-19
Author(s) -
Olga Kubar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infekciâ i immunitet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.137
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2313-7398
pISSN - 2220-7619
DOI - 10.15789/2220-7619-eco-1447
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , political science , engineering ethics , management science , medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , engineering , disease , pathology , outbreak
Over decades, the St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute has been conducting research on Ethical and legal aspects of infectious diseases. One of the areas in this study focuses on ethical issue in the planning and management during epidemics and pandemics. This concept becomes extremely relevant in the situation of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which has determined the urgent need for rapid updates on this issue and analyzing compliance of decisions and actions undertaken to ethical and legal regulations in Russia and abroad. The rational and practical side of following the global ideology of ethical commitment during worldwide threats due to spread of infectious diseases is aimed to facilitate in preventing violated integrity of anti-epidemic measures, formation of social unity and, finally, to ensure stability of human values, which will be discussed in this study.