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. 2020 Apr 9;15(1):31.
doi: 10.5334/gh.778.

World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Friedrich Thienemann  1   2   3 , Fausto Pinto  3   4 , Diederick E Grobbee  3   5 , Michael Boehm  6 , Nooshin Bazargani  3 , Junbo Ge  3   7 , Karen Sliwa  1   3
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World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Friedrich Thienemann et al. Glob Heart. .

Abstract

In December 2019, the novel coronavirus Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Since then it has spread to many other regions, including low-income countries.

Keywords: Africa; COVID-19; cardiovascular disease; coronavirus; low income countries; middle income countries.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

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Global map of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 epidemic by region.
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Transmission and infection.
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Signs and symptoms.
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Prevention.
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