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COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date

Luigì Santacroce, Ioannis Alexandros Charitos, Raffaele Del Prete

2020Electronic Journal of General Medicine42 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

This paper is aimed to point out the current state of the COVID-19 pandemics in Italy. Currently, COVID-19 is an international crisis and all the continents have recorded a certain number of cases to date. After the first report of such infectious threat in China, the disease has progressively widespread thorough the world, and all the countries have attempted to point out specific protocols and therapies to face this new, unknown condition. The authors report an overview of how the Italian health service is facing this crisis after two months from the first internal reported cases. At last, special considerations highlight the non-sanitary issues of COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.

Topics & Concepts

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicOutbreak2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)ChinaFace (sociological concept)Infectious disease (medical specialty)Political scienceGeographyDiseaseDevelopment economicsMedicineVirologySociologyEconomicsLawSocial sciencePathologyCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesCOVID-19 diagnosis using AIDisaster Response and Management
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