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Turkey reported its first COVID-19 case on March 10, 2020. We present here the mitigation efforts Turkey has undertaken so far, and also review the lessons learned for future proactive strategies. High number of intensive care unit beds and…

Start of the pandemic At the end of February, I was undertaking a mini fellowship on Trans-anal Total Meso-rectal Excision (TaTME) in Switzerland. The number of cases infected with corona virus disease (COVID-19) and deaths were rising exponentially…

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has plagued the Middle East since it was first reported in 2012. Recently, at the end of December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases were reported from Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China, linked…

The recent COVID-19 pandemic, which broke at the end of the year 2019 in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 98.52 million people by today (January 23, 2021) with over 2.11 million deaths across the globe. To combat the growing pandemic on urgent…

Jidi Zhao,1 Jianguo Jia,2 Ying Qian,3 Lumin Zhong,4 Jiancong Wang,5 Yuyang Cai4,6 1Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2System Dynamics Chapter, Systems Engineering Society of…

Introduction: The recent SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the general population. Hemodialysis patients due to their characteristics are especially vulnerable. Objective: To specify the characteristics of patients with…

Because of in vitro studies, hydroxychloroquine has been evaluated as a preexposure or postexposure prophylaxis for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and as a possible COVID-19 curative treatment. We report a case of COVID-19 in a patient with…

In Japan, clinical and experimental studies addressing COVID-19 have been increasing in number since early February 2020, with many case reports being published. Concurrently, many notifications and guidelines have been issued from the government and…