Pakistan’s Response to COVID-19: Overcoming National and International Hypes to Fight the Pandemic

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...

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Autores principales: Akhtar, Hashaam, Afridi, Maham, Akhtar, Samar, Ahmad, Hamaad, Ali, Sabahat, Khalid, Sundas, Awan, Sajid Mahmood, Jahangiri, Shahzaib, Khader, Yousef Saleh
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8136406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33877048
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28517
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author Akhtar, Hashaam
Afridi, Maham
Akhtar, Samar
Ahmad, Hamaad
Ali, Sabahat
Khalid, Sundas
Awan, Sajid Mahmood
Jahangiri, Shahzaib
Khader, Yousef Saleh
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-81364062021-05-25 Pakistan’s Response to COVID-19: Overcoming National and International Hypes to Fight the Pandemic Akhtar, Hashaam Afridi, Maham Akhtar, Samar Ahmad, Hamaad Ali, Sabahat Khalid, Sundas Awan, Sajid Mahmood Jahangiri, Shahzaib Khader, Yousef Saleh JMIR Public Health Surveill Viewpoint 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. JMIR Publications 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8136406/ /pubmed/33877048 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28517 Text en ©Hashaam Akhtar, Maham Afridi, Samar Akhtar, Hamaad Ahmad, Sabahat Ali, Sundas Khalid, Sajid Mahmood Awan, Shahzaib Jahangiri, Yousef Saleh Khader. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (https://publichealth.jmir.org), 19.05.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://publichealth.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Akhtar, Hashaam
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Awan, Sajid Mahmood
Jahangiri, Shahzaib
Khader, Yousef Saleh
Pakistan’s Response to COVID-19: Overcoming National and International Hypes to Fight the Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8136406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33877048
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28517
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