COVID-19: Preparedness for a Potential Pandemic
(This is part 3 of a column on Medisina at Politika by Dr. Pagtakhan. Part 2 appeared on the February 16, 2020 edition of CFNet.)
As of today, over 80-thousand patients from 29 countries have been diagnosed with COVID-19 – short for coronavirus disease that emerged in December 2019. Compared to the figures reported a month ago, these numbers represent over a hundred-fold increase in patients and more than a three-fold increase in affected countries. And over 2,700 patients had lost their lives since the disease began in early December 2019. ;