World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Friedrich Thienemann; Fausto Pinto; Diederick E. Grobbee; Michael Boehm; Nooshin Bazargani; Junbo Ge; Karen Sliwa

doi:10.5334/gh.778

World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Volume 15 (2020): Issue 1

By: Friedrich Thienemann, Fausto Pinto, Diederick E. Grobbee, Michael Boehm, Nooshin Bazargani, Junbo Ge and Karen Sliwa

Open Access

|Apr 2020

Abstract

In December 2019, the novel coronavirus Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Since then it has spread to many other regions, including low-income countries.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.778 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179

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Language: English

Submitted on: Mar 5, 2020

Accepted on: Mar 5, 2020

Published on: Apr 9, 2020

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

coronavirus,

COVID-19,

Africa,

low income countries,

middle income countries,

cardiovascular disease

© 2020 Friedrich Thienemann, Fausto Pinto, Diederick E. Grobbee, Michael Boehm, Nooshin Bazargani, Junbo Ge, Karen Sliwa, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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