Digestive and Liver Diseases and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the highly contagious zoonotic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first cases of the disease were reported in China in December 2019; in the following months, the infection spread across the world, and by March 2020, it had been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. To contain the spread of the infection, emergency measures, ranging from various degrees of social distancing to complete lockdowns have been adopted in different countries at different times.
Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research