Open AccessOutbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan and the current scenario
Author(s) -
Arslan Habib,
Khalid Mahmood Anjum,
Ajmal Shehzad,
Muhammad Imran,
Zeeshan Ashraf,
Muhammad Ramzan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the applied biology and chemistry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-8789
DOI - 10.52679/tabcj.2020.0008
Subject(s) - outbreak , pandemic , public health , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , coronavirus , china , medicine , virology , disease , geography , economic growth , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , archaeology , pathology , electrical engineering , economics , engineering
The current pandemic of COVID-19 was first observed in the Wuhan city of China in December 2019, which later appeared worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) declares coronavirus pandemic as an international issue of a public health emergency worldwide. On 11 February 2020, WHO named this virus as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Different effective preventive measures were implemented to control the transmission of COVID-19. After the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Pakistan, the government designed other effective protocols to fight against this zoonotic disease. This review highlighted the COVID-19 outbreak prevalence in Pakistan with their current scenario and the government response to combat the disease.