• East. Mediterr. Health J. · May 2020

    Editorial

    Solidarity in response to COVID-19 outbreak in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

    • Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Chiori Kodama, Abdinasir Abubakar, and Richard Brennan.
    • Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
    • East. Mediterr. Health J. 2020 May 21; 26 (5): 492-494.

    AbstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak that began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late 2019 has spread globally within a few months. The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) after the second meeting of the IHR (2005) Emergency Committee on 30 January 2020. On 12 March 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 was characterized as a pandemic.Copyright © World Health Organization (WHO) 2020. Open Access. Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo).

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