Open AccessWorld, Science, and Education in the post-COVID era
Author(s) -
Hortensia Rodrı́guez,
Nelson Santiago Vispo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bionatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1390-9355
pISSN - 1390-9347
DOI - 10.21931/rb/2021.06.02.1
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , global health , pneumonia , coronavirus , china , etiology , economic growth , political science , virology , development economics , geography , socioeconomics , economic history , history , medicine , outbreak , sociology , health care , economics , pathology , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
The current COVID-19 pandemic, produced by a mutant strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has generated throughout the world, in the 21st century, a severe economic, social, and health crisis never saw before. It began in China at the end of December 2019, in Hubei (Wuhan city), where 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported, with seven severe patients. The first case was described on December 8, 2019, 1, and by March 2020, the WHO declares the global pandemic, which denotes its rapid global expansion 2.