COVID-19: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Peter A Leggat^{1

2}, John Frean³, Lucille Blumberg³

Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
² School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.
³ Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg 2131, South Africa.

Editorial

Peter A Leggat et al. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2022.

. 2022 Jan 24;7(2):16.

doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed7020016.

Peter A Leggat^{1

2}, John Frean³, Lucille Blumberg³

¹ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
² School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.
³ Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg 2131, South Africa.

Abstract

This Special Issue focuses on recent global research on the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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