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Health care workers in wake of COVID-19 era

Author(s) -

Khalid Waheed,

Munaza Javed

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

pakistan postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2710-1924

DOI - 10.51642/ppmj.v31i02.367

Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , china , virus diseases , virology , virus , pneumonia , contagious disease , geography , disease , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , pathology

By the end of December 2019 clusters of mysterious pneumonias were reported in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province, China which was later diagnosed to be caused by a novel corona virus. This virus belongs to a large family of Corona viruses which caused diseases like SARS and MERS in the past. It is is now named as SARS-CoV-2 virus causing a disease named as COVID-19.1, 2 Within months this highly contagious abysmal virus spread like wild fire across multiple continents. Finally COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by World health organization (WHO) by mid of March, 2020.3

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