Open AccessCardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) in COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Author(s) -
Vjekoslav Gerc,
Izet Mašić,
Nizama Salihefendić,
Muharem Zildžić
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
materia socio-medica/materia socio medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1986-597X
pISSN - 1512-7680
DOI - 10.5455/msm.2020.32.158-164
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , disease , family medicine , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
COVID-19 is the disease caused by an infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, previously known as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) respiratory disease. World Health Organization (WHO) declared the official name as COVID-19 in February 2020 and in 11 th March 2020 declared COVID-19 as Global Pandemic. In June 6 th 2020, over 7 million cases registered in the world, recovered 3.4 million and death over 402.000.