“Pompeii Event”: The COVID-19 Catastrophe
Introduction
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), acute respiratory outbreak crisis, probably originated in Wuhan province, in China, in December 2019. COVID-19 rapidly spread to more than 200 countries, in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia. It has infected millions of human beings and caused approximately one million deaths to date. The global spread of this virus led the World Health Organization (WHO) to characterize this highly infectious disease as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, as it showed increasing human-to-human infection.
COVID-19 continues to exceed infection and death rates compared to other recent coronavirus outbreaks such as MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and seasonal influenza. Previous ...
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