Novel coronavirus: how things are in Wuhan

Impact of COVID-19 infection on pregnancy outcomes and the risk of maternal-to-neonatal intrapartum transmission of COVID-19 during natural birth

“…Moreover, healthcare workers were not included, even though healthcare workers are at higher risk of contracting the infection and psychological consequences. 3 We conducted a case report study in pregnant women with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 with vaginal deliveries at Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China. Both healthcare workers and female obstetric patients were included in this study.…”

Preventing bat-born viral outbreaks in future using ecological interventions

“…China is the most populous country in the world and has experienced three large-scale bat origin COVs epidemics (Fan et al 2019;Khan et al 2020). Similarly, other bats related epidemics have been reported in areas with higher human population growth (Plowright et al 2015).…”

“…The Coronavirus Disease 2019 outbreak caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported for the first time in December 2019, Wuhan, China (Khan et al 2020). The COVID-19 then rapidly spread from the epicentre globally, and now characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (World Health Organization 2020).…”

The spread of novel coronavirus has created an alarming situation worldwide

“…According to the report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, there are 1.8 practicing doctors for 1000 citizens in China which is too low. Therefore, the increasing numbers of infected and suspected doctors and nurses are creating an additional significant shortage of working medical staff, thus, increasing an additional working and mental pressure on the normal health workers [6]. In such circumstances, the working efficiency of medical staff may critically decrease, that may increase the risk of viral spread and further increase the fatality rate among the infected individuals.…”

“…Psychological stress and anxiety might be one of the risk factors for higher COVID-19 mediated morbidity among medical staff and clinical workers. In addition, the possible reasons of infectiousness among the medical staff are close contacts with infected patients, shortage of protection gowns and clothing for staff, dealing infected individuals with limited clinical supplies, and providing quick assistance to mitigate the burden [6]. Till now, the death of six health workers/1700 infected due to COVID-19 has been reported compared to the death of five health workers/343 infected due to SARS in 2002 [7].…”