The Early Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Surgical Urologic Oncology Practice in Turkey: Multi-Institutional Experience from Different Geographic Areas

The human spread of a novel beta-coronavirus, i.e. severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019.1 COVID-19 was then designated as the name of the disease resulting from this infection which is short for “Coronavirus Disease 2019”.1 COVID-19 has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, which is also the date when the first confirmed case in Turkey has been announced by the Ministry of Health.
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