Department of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, PA, USA.
Biomed J. 2020 Aug;43(4):334-340. doi: 10.1016/j.bj.2020.05.023. Epub 2020 Jun 1.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province and has rapidly spread all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 01/30/2020 and recognized it as a pandemic on 03/11/2020. The number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide crossed the one million mark on 04/02/2020; two million mark on 04/15/2020; three million mark on 04/27/2020 and the four million mark on 05/09/2020. Despite containment efforts, more than 187 countries have been affected with more than 4,178,346 cases in the world with maximum being in USA (1,347,936) followed by 227,436 in Spain and 224,422 in United Kingdom as of May, 2020. COVID-19 is the latest threat to face mankind cutting across geographical barriers in a rapidly changing landscape. This review provides an update on a rapidly evolving global pandemic. As we face the threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, this is a stark reminder to invest in population health, climate change countermeasures, a global health surveillance system and effective research into identifying pathogens, their treatment and prevention and effective health delivery systems.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）由严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2 型（SARS-CoV-2）引起，于 2019 年 12 月在中国湖北省省会武汉首次被鉴定，现已迅速在全球蔓延。世界卫生组织（WHO）于 2020 年 1 月 30 日宣布疫情为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件，并于 2020 年 3 月 11 日宣布其为大流行。全球确诊 COVID-19 人数于 2020 年 4 月 2 日突破一百万；4 月 15 日突破两百万；4 月 27 日突破三百万；5 月 9 日突破四百万。尽管采取了遏制措施，但仍有超过 187 个国家受到影响，全球有超过 4178346 例病例，其中美国最多（1347936 例），其次是西班牙（227436 例）和英国（224422 例）。截至 2020 年 5 月。COVID-19 是人类面临的最新威胁，跨越了地理界限，在迅速变化的环境中蔓延。本综述提供了对迅速演变的全球大流行的最新更新。由于我们面临新出现和重新出现的传染病的威胁，这强烈提醒我们要投资于人口健康、气候变化对策、全球卫生监测系统以及有效研究以确定病原体、其治疗和预防以及有效的卫生提供系统。
