The battle against Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Public health perspective

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was initially reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan has now spread unprecedented all over the world, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The World Health Organization declared this outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern durin...

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Autor principal: Al-Otaibi, Sultan T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Saudi Medical Journal 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7841590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294885
http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25459
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was initially reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan has now spread unprecedented all over the world, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The World Health Organization declared this outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern during late January 2020 while the announcement of this viral infectious condition was made as COVID-19 disease during February 2020. As of late May 2020, the global death rate due to COVID-19 was 357,714 and 441 in KSA alone. This review provides an overview of COVID-19 and the public health measures adopted by KSA in the context of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-78415902021-03-11 The battle against Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Public health perspective Al-Otaibi, Sultan T. Saudi Med J Review Article Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was initially reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan has now spread unprecedented all over the world, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The World Health Organization declared this outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern during late January 2020 while the announcement of this viral infectious condition was made as COVID-19 disease during February 2020. As of late May 2020, the global death rate due to COVID-19 was 357,714 and 441 in KSA alone. This review provides an overview of COVID-19 and the public health measures adopted by KSA in the context of COVID-19. Saudi Medical Journal 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7841590/ /pubmed/33294885 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25459 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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