World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries
Friedrich Thienemann,
Fausto Pinto,
Diederick E. Grobbee,
Michael Boehm,
Nooshin Bazargani,
Junbo Ge,
Karen Sliwa
Affiliations
Friedrich Thienemann
Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, ZA; Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich; World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva
Fausto Pinto
World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva, CH; Santa Maria University Hospital, CAML, CCUL, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon
Diederick E. Grobbee
World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva, CH; Julius Global Health, the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht
Michael Boehm
University of Saarland, Homburg
Nooshin Bazargani
World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva
Junbo Ge
World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva, CH; 葛均波 ZS-hospital, Shanghai
Karen Sliwa
Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, ZA; World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva
In December 2019, the novel coronavirus Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Since then it has spread to many other regions, including low-income countries.
