Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Univer-sidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Associate Editor, In-fectio. Vicepresident 2019-2021, ACIN. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-21922 Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Uni-versitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.3 Committee on Tropical Medicine, Zoonoses and Travel Medicine, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia.
After more than half year with the ongoing pandemic of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in all the continents, there are still many concerns regarding this emerging di-sease1,2. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 11, 2020, but it was on December 31, 2019, when a pneumonia of unknown cause was reported to WHO China Office