European Respiratory Journal
Guan, Wei-Jie; Chen, Rong-Chang; Zhong, Nan-Shan.
Introduction
Early protection, early identification, early diagnosis, and early isolation are crucial to combat with Covid-19 outbreaks Since the outbreak in Wuhan city in December 2019, there has been a surge of newly diagnosed cases with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) globally [1-4]. The total number has reached to 101,927 laboratory-confirmed cases as of March 8 th, 2020 [5]. An increasing number of countries have issued the alert of the highest level
Keywords
Transmission; control; prevention; therapy; laboratory testing