Yusra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Yusra Medical and Dental College, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 May 19;7(5):e28517. doi: 10.2196/28517.
The COVID-19 outbreak started as pneumonia in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The subsequent pandemic was declared as the sixth public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, by the World Health Organization. Pakistan could be a potential hotspot for COVID-19 owing to its high population of 204.65 million and its struggling health care and economic systems. Pakistan was able to tackle the challenge with relatively mild repercussions. The present analysis has been conducted to highlight the situation of the disease in Pakistan in 2020 and the measures taken by various stakeholders coupled with support from the community to abate the risk of catastrophic spread of the virus.
2019 年 12 月，中国武汉出现了一种新型冠状病毒引发的肺炎。随后，世界卫生组织于 2020 年 1 月 30 日宣布将此次疫情列为第六次国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。由于巴基斯坦拥有 2.0465 亿人口，医疗保健和经济体系较为薄弱，巴基斯坦可能成为 COVID-19 的潜在热点地区。巴基斯坦能够相对轻松地应对这一挑战，所造成的影响也相对较小。本分析旨在突出 2020 年巴基斯坦的疫情状况，以及各利益攸关方采取的措施，加上社区的支持，以减轻病毒灾难性传播的风险。
