Coronavirus Disease 2019 as a challenge for maritime medicine

International maritime health

Vol 71, No 1 (2020)

Sikorska, K.

Introduction

On 11 March 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) ”made the assessment that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be characterised as a pandemic”. Six weeks earlier, on 30 January 2020, the outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Keywords

Epidemiology