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. 2020 May;32(4):154-156.
doi: 10.1177/1010539520927259. Epub 2020 May 19.

Progress of COVID-19 Epidemic in Pakistan

Khadijah Abid  1 , Yashfika Abdul Bari  1 , Maryam Younas  1 , Sehar Tahir Javaid  1 , Abira Imran  2
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Progress of COVID-19 Epidemic in Pakistan

Khadijah Abid et al. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2020 May.

Abstract

The outbreak of corona virus initiated as pneumonia of unknown cause in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, which has been now spreading rapidly out of Wuhan to other countries. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus outbreak as the sixth public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and on March 11, 2020, the WHO announced coronavirus as pandemic. Coronavirus is thought to be increasing in Pakistan. The first case of coronavirus was reported from Karachi on February 26, 2020, with estimated populace of Pakistan as 204.65 million. Successively, the virus spreads into various regions nationwide and has currently become an epidemic. The WHO has warned Pakistan that the country could encounter great challenge against the outbreak of coronavirus in the coming days. This short communication is conducted to shed light on the epidemic of coronavirus in the country. It would aid in emphasizing the up-to-date situation in a nutshell and the measures taken by the health sector of Pakistan to abate the risk of communication.

Keywords: COVID-19; Pakistan; coronavirus; epidemic; epidemiology; pandemic; population health; public health; virus outbreak.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Pakistan situation report (April 10, 2020—7:20 pm).
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Age and gender-wise distribution of COVID-19.
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