Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, INDIA.
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, GERMANY; St. John's Medical College and St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, INDIA.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2021 Oct-Dec;VI(4):334-338. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2021.047.
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the enormous challenges it posed to ordinary people and experts across disciplines, worldwide. Covid-19, which broke out in Wuhan in December 2019, soon spread rapidly in 2020 (1), till on March 11, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic. According to the latest statistics, worldwide there have been a total of 173,331,478 cases of Covid-19 and 3,735,571 deaths (2).
2020 年将作为新冠疫情之年载入史册,这场疫情给全世界普通民众和各学科专家带来了巨大挑战。新冠疫情于 2019 年 12 月在武汉爆发,随后在 2020 年迅速蔓延(1),直至 2020 年 3 月 11 日,世界卫生组织宣布其为大流行。根据最新统计数据,全球新冠病毒累计确诊病例达到 173331478 例,死亡病例 3735571 例(2)。