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Editorial
. 2020 May 21;26(5):492-494.
doi: 10.26719/2020.26.5.492.

Solidarity in response to COVID-19 outbreak in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Ahmed Al-Mandhari  1 , Chiori Kodama  2 , Abdinasir Abubakar  3 , Richard Brennan  4
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Editorial

Solidarity in response to COVID-19 outbreak in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Ahmed Al-Mandhari et al. East Mediterr Health J. .
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Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak that began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late 2019 has spread globally within a few months. The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) after the second meeting of the IHR (2005) Emergency Committee on 30 January 2020. On 12 March 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 was characterized as a pandemic.

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