Infodemic and risk communication in the era of CoV-19

Abstract

1© 2020 Advanced Biomedical Research | P u b lished b y W olters K luwer - M edknow In the last day of 2019, clusters of pneumonia cases with unknown origin in Wuhan, China, were reported to the China’s National Health Commission.[1] One week later, a new coronavirus (CoV) was isolated which is now called CoV‑19 and is currently recognized as a public health emergency of international concern.[2] Fifty‑nine days after the first case (February 27, 2020), CoV‑19 has reached 52 countries, with 82,785 infected cases, from which 2817 deaths were reported