The COVID-19 pandemic — a view of the current state of the problem
Kurt Ruetzler, Łukasz Szarpak, Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Jerzy Robert Ładny, Jacek Smereka
Abstract
The current pandemic has raised great global public health concern. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) [1,2]. Meanwhile, 2019-nCoV was renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. SARS CoV-2 is considered highly contagious. As of April 1, 2020, more than 883,255 confirmed cases, including more than 44,156 deaths, have been reported worldwide, affecting almost the whole world.
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PandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPublic healthVirologyGlobal healthPolitical scienceGeographyInfectious disease (medical specialty)DiseaseMedicineOutbreakPathologyDiverse Scientific Research StudiesCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI