We have noticed after almost one year in the pandemic that we have not had a proper talk about COVID-19 nor about updates in the research field. That’s why this week we are going to talk about COVID-19. Here goes the content table:
- Short history of COVID-19
- Weekly Operational Update on COVID-19 11 January 2021
- Infodemic and what we can do
When the calendars showed the date 31th of December 2019, People’s Republic of China made a statement about viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan, of which the cause was unknown. By January the 3rd China provided information to the World Health Organization about the pneumonia cases, by then WHO has already activated its Incident Management Support Team (IMST) as a part of the emergency response framework and also informed Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) partners about the clusters of cases. 6 days later, on January 9th, WHO reported that Chinese authorities have determined that the cause of the outbreak was a novel coronavirus.
On March 11th WHO declared that the COVID-19 could be assessed as a pandemic and it called every country to take whole-government action since the outbreak was not just a public health concern but it could impact every sector. WHO emphasized that the course of the pandemic could be changed by countries’ actions. They called every government to “detect, test, treat, isolate, trace, and mobilize their people in the response”.