Coronavirus (COVID-19) Collection
Are we ready to deal with a global COVID-19 pandemic? Rethinking countries’ capacity based on the Global Health Security Index
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild-to-moderate upper respiratory tract diseases. However, several new coronaviruses have emerged over the past two decades and caused large-scale disease outbreaks (Cui et al., 2019). For example, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first reported in Asia in 2003 and then quickly spread to 26 countries, resulting in over 8000 cases and 774 deaths (de Wit et al., 2016). In 2012, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) emerged in Saudi Arabia and spread to 27 countries, causing 2494 cases and 858 deaths (de Wit et al., 2016; Oh et al., 2018; WHO, 2020).Database of epidemic trends and control measures during the first wave of COVID-19 in mainland China
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was first reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019 (Xinhua, 2020b). From late January 2020, many provinces in China began to report confirmed COVID-19 cases. Stringent social distancing, travel restrictions, contact tracing, environmental disinfection, and other strategies were implemented to control the epidemic. From late February 2020, other countries reported rising numbers of infections, whereas a declining epidemic trend was observed in China.Effect of a wet market on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) transmission dynamics in China, 2019–2020
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) originating from Wuhan spread rapidly around the world to give rise to the most important pandemic event in recent history. As of May 17, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases had reached 3.5 million, including 250,000 deaths (WHO, 2019). Early mean estimates of the reproduction number, based on the epidemic's growth rate, were estimated to be in the range of 1.4–3.5, comparable with estimates for seasonal flu, the 2009 pandemic flu, SARS, and MERS (WHO, 2005; Biggerstaff et al., 2014; Chowell et al., 2004; Chowell et al., 2014; Kucharski et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020).A conceptual model for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China with individual reaction and governmental action
The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has claimed 2663 lives, along with 77,658 confirmed cases and 2824 suspected cases in China, as of 24 February 2020 (24:00 GMT+8), according to the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHCPRC, 2020). The number of deaths associated with COVID-19 greatly exceeds the other two coronaviruses (severe acure respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, MERS-CoV), and the outbreak is still ongoing, which posed a huge threat to the global public health and economics (Bogoch et al., 2020; J.T.
