Abdullah Jafri Malin, Wan Ismail Wan Faisham Nu'man, Mohamad Irfan, Ab Razak Asrenee, Harun Azian, Musa Kamarul Imran, Lee Yeong Yeh
Editorial Board Member, Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Brain Behaviour Cluster and Department of Neurosciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Malays J Med Sci. 2020 Mar;27(2):1-9. doi: 10.21315/mjms2020.27.2.1. Epub 2020 Apr 10.
When the first report of COVID-19 appeared in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, the world unknowingly perceived this as another flu-like illness. Many were surprised at the extreme steps that China had subsequently taken to seal Wuhan from the rest of the world. However, by February 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, had spread so quickly across the globe that the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic the world has seen, so what makes it so unique in Malaysia, is discussed to avoid a future coronacoma.
2019年12月,中国武汉首次报告了新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)病例,当时全世界都不知不觉地将其视为另一种类似流感的疾病。许多人对中国随后采取的将武汉与世界其他地区隔离开来的极端措施感到惊讶。然而,到2020年2月,导致COVID-19的严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)病毒已在全球迅速传播,以至于世界卫生组织正式宣布COVID-19为大流行病。COVID-19并非世界上出现的首例大流行病,因此本文将讨论其在马来西亚如此独特的原因,以避免未来出现冠状病毒后遗症。