Papa Giovanni XXIII Bergamo Hospital at the time of the COVID‐19 outbreak: Letter from the warfront…

S. Buoro, F. Di Marco, M. Rizzi, F. Fabretti, F. Lorini, S. Cesa, S. Fagiuoli

International journal of laboratory hematology, 2020

In early December 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified as the agent responsible for the first pneumonia cases of unknown origin in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei region in China. The virus has been identified as a novel enveloped RNA betacoronavirus2 , that has been promptly named SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). The World Health Organization (WHO), on January 12, 2020 declared the COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. On March 11, the WHO made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

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Field of study: Medicine

10.1111/ijlh.13207