The Coronavirus. An infection prevention and control case study

Download or read book The Coronavirus. An infection prevention and control case study written by John Die and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Medicine - Epidemiology, grade: Pass, James Cook University, language: English, abstract: This work describes possible control measures and actions to control and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. A novel virus broke out in a city in southern China last year and developed to a major public health threat within a few months. The pandemic began with an outbreak of pneumonia with unknown origin because of an infection of the lower respiratory tract. Soon, the novel pathogen was identified as a novel coronavirus, described as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) by the Chinese government.