Open AccessCancer patients having COVID-19 in Primorsky region: Morbidity and mortality
Author(s) -
Фатеева Анастасия Валерьевна,
Л И Гурина
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tihookeanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1609-1175
DOI - 10.34215/1609-1175-2020-4-5-9
Subject(s) - covid-19 , outbreak , epidemiology , disease , coronavirus , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology
In the end of the year 2019 there was an outbreak of the new coronavirus infection with the epicenter in China, Wuhan (Hubei province). On 11th of February WHO defined an official name of the infection generated by new coronavirus – COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 2019). On the 11th of February the International Committee on Virus Taxonomy assigned the name to the causative agent – SARS-CoV-2. The emergence of the COVID-19 set the task to the medical specialists connected with the fast diagnostics and providing medical treatment to the patients. Currently the intensive study of the clinical and epidemiological peculiarities of the disease, the development of new ways of prevention and treatment is the ongoing process. In this article the results of the morbidity and death rates connected with COVID-19 of the patients having cancer in Primorskiy region from 31st of March to 31st of August 2020 are introduced.