Open AccessHealth care workers in wake of COVID-19 era
Author(s) -
Khalid Waheed,
Muhammad Javed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pakistan postgraduate medical institute
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