Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries
We are living in times where a viral disease has brought normal life in much of the world to a halt. The novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China initially and in a sh...
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| author | Edmond Puca Rok Čivljak Jurica Arapović Corneliu Popescu Iva Christova Lul Raka Fadil Cana Vesna Miranović Drosos Karageorgopoulos Denis Baš Bianca Paglietti Aleksandra Barać |
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We are living in times where a viral disease has brought normal life in much of the world to a halt. The novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China initially and in a short time crossed the European borders. After mitigating the epidemic in China, Italy became one of the most COVID-19 affected countries worldwide. International travelers are important sources of infectious diseases and a possible source of epidemic. Due to its political, geographic, and cultural similarities, Italy is one of the main economic partners of Southeast European (SEE) countries. Our data show that infection in index cases in all 11 SEE countries was travel-related with Italy being a source country for 8/11 countries. After the first case identifications on February 25, the number of cases in SEE countries is continually rising reaching the total number of 15,612 with 565 fatal cases and overall case fatality ratio (CFR) of 3.6 (median 3.8, range 0.8–5.5) by April 10, 2020. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is approaching its peak, apart from the problems with treatment of the disease and care for critically ill patients, there are other equally important problems, such as organization of outbreak response, provision of health care, lack of hospital personnel, disruption of personal protective equipment supply chains and health care workers (HCWs) protection. But what is more important is the heroic behavior of the HCWs who are showing their humanity by disregarding their lives.
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| spelling | doaj-art-b4e8a3655cee4d9daca418a2fc164c512025-08-20T03:52:42ZengThe Journal of Infection in Developing CountriesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries1972-26802020-05-01140510.3855/jidc.12814Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countriesEdmond Puca0Rok Čivljak1Jurica Arapović2Corneliu Popescu3Iva Christova4Lul Raka5Fadil Cana6Vesna Miranović7Drosos Karageorgopoulos8Denis Baš9Bianca Paglietti10Aleksandra Barać11Service of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Center, Tirana, AlbaniaDepartment of Respiratory Tract Infections, Dr. Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Medical Biology, School of Medicine, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and HerzegovinaCarol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, RomaniaNational Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, BulgariaNational Institute of Public Health of Kosova, Prishtina, KosovaUniversity Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Clinical Campus "Mother Teresa", Skopje, North MacedoniaMinistry of Health, Podgorica, MontenegroDepartment of Medicine, Attikon General Hospital, Athens, GreecePediatric outpatient Department, Juventina Clinic, Ljubljana, SloveniaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, ItalyClinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia We are living in times where a viral disease has brought normal life in much of the world to a halt. The novel coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China initially and in a short time crossed the European borders. After mitigating the epidemic in China, Italy became one of the most COVID-19 affected countries worldwide. International travelers are important sources of infectious diseases and a possible source of epidemic. Due to its political, geographic, and cultural similarities, Italy is one of the main economic partners of Southeast European (SEE) countries. Our data show that infection in index cases in all 11 SEE countries was travel-related with Italy being a source country for 8/11 countries. After the first case identifications on February 25, the number of cases in SEE countries is continually rising reaching the total number of 15,612 with 565 fatal cases and overall case fatality ratio (CFR) of 3.6 (median 3.8, range 0.8–5.5) by April 10, 2020. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is approaching its peak, apart from the problems with treatment of the disease and care for critically ill patients, there are other equally important problems, such as organization of outbreak response, provision of health care, lack of hospital personnel, disruption of personal protective equipment supply chains and health care workers (HCWs) protection. But what is more important is the heroic behavior of the HCWs who are showing their humanity by disregarding their lives. https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/12814COVID-19pandemicSARS-CoV-2Southeast European (SEE) countrieshealthcare workers |
| spellingShingle | Edmond Puca Rok Čivljak Jurica Arapović Corneliu Popescu Iva Christova Lul Raka Fadil Cana Vesna Miranović Drosos Karageorgopoulos Denis Baš Bianca Paglietti Aleksandra Barać Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries Journal of Infection in Developing Countries COVID-19 pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Southeast European (SEE) countries healthcare workers |
| title | Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries |
| title_full | Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries |
| title_fullStr | Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries |
| title_short | Short epidemiological overview of the current situation on COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast European (SEE) countries |
| title_sort | short epidemiological overview of the current situation on covid 19 pandemic in southeast european see countries |
| topic | COVID-19 pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Southeast European (SEE) countries healthcare workers |
| url | https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/12814 |
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