Protecting frontline workers

Kwegyir-Afful, E; Leigh, JA

Abstract

In December 2019, news of a strange new illness, mainly in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province in China, came through social media. Little was known about the virus until 11 February 2020, when it was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (World Health Organization (WHO), 2020a). Although a member of the family of coronaviruses and similar to the virus implicated in the SARS outbreak of 2003, virologists have reported some differences, making COVID-19 a novel coronavirus. We tell the story.

Citation

Kwegyir-Afful, E., & Leigh, J. (2020). Protecting frontline workers. British Journal of Nursing, 29(13), 728. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.13.728

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 12, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 10, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 9, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 10, 2021
• Journal: British Journal of Nursing
• Print ISSN: 0966-0461
• Electronic ISSN: 2052-2819
• Publisher: MA Healthcare
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 728
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.13.728
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.13.728
• Related Public URLs: https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/loi/bjon
• Additional Information: Access Information : This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in British Journal of Nursing, copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.13.728.