Evaluation of COVID-19 epidemic outbreak caused by temporal contact-increase in South Korea

In December 2019, people in Wuhan, China began to contract pneumonia, and the cause was unknown. The condition was similar to viral pneumonia, as confirmed by clinical presentation. On January 7, 2020, it was confirmed that the cause of the pneumonia was a new coronavirus. Thereafter, this was named the 2019 novel coronavirus disease-COVID-19. Notably, COVID-19 induces mild symptoms that are similar to those induced by other respiratory infections. However, particularly, it affects older people with comorbidity and can result in fatal respiratory diseases (Chen et al., 2020).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - May 13, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Sungchan Kim, Yong Dam Jeong, Jong Hyuk Byun, Giphil Cho, Anna Park, Jae Hun Jung, Yunil Roh, Sooyoun Choi, Ibrahim Malik Muhammad, Il Hyo Jung Source Type: research