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COVID-19 Outbreak

  • Funded by British Red Cross, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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Grant number: GB-CHC-220949-P8092

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Funder

    British Red Cross, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

  • Principal Investigator

    N/A

  • Research Location

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  • Lead Research Institution

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  • Research Priority Alignment

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  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    N/A

  • Special Interest Tags

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  • Study Type

    Not applicable

  • Clinical Trial Details

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  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

On 31 December 2019, WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. This virus was later identified as a new virus and has been named √¢'Ǩ≈ì2019-nCoV.√¢'Ǩ¬ù The new virus is a coronavirus, which is a family of viruses that include the common cold, and viruses such as SARS and MERS. On the 30th January 2020, Coronavirus was declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO. On the 28th February 2020 the WHO upgraded the global risk from the coronavirus to "very high." On the 11th Feb the virus was officially named COVID-19: - The name is taken from the words "corona", "virus" and "disease", 2019 representing the year that it emerged. - The word coronavirus refers to the group of viruses it belongs to, rather than the latest strain. - The virus itself has been designated SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. On the 11th March the coronavirus outbreak was labelled a pandemic by WHO.