Is Pakistan's Response to Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Adequate to Prevent an Outbreak?

Frontiers in Medicine

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Bilal Javed¹  Abdullah Sarwer³  Erik B. Soto⁵  Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani¹ 

[1] Faculty of Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University;Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, United States;Nawaz Sharif Medical College, University of Gujrat;Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital;Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, United States

关键词: novel coronavirus;    SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-2019 epidemic;    pandemic;    Pakistan;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2020.00158

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

After the dreadful outbreak in Wuhan, China and scientific evidence of its human-to-human transmission, in an effort to stem the virus’ reach and spread and to try to contain it at the source, governments across the world—most notably the United States—began putting in place and enforcing travel restrictions to and from China (1). However, because it was a new virus with little known about it and because there was a huge global dearth in the availability of screening and testing equipment, the disease spread rapidly across the world (2). In fact, it spread so rapidly that by 26th February 2020, the number of new infections outside of China had increased 13-fold when compared to the number of new infections inside of China. Additionally, the number of countries infected with COVID-19 had tripled. On 11th March 2020 WHO declared that COVID-19 could be categorized as a Pandemic. On 27 February 2020, Pakistan reported its first two patients of COVID19 (3). The first two cases were from individuals who had recently traveled back to Pakistan from Iran (4).

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