Altered severity of the current SARS-CoV-2 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
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3. World Health Organization (WHO) (2020). WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 11 March 2020.
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7. Peeri NC, Shrestha N, Rahman MS, Zaki R, Tan Z, Bibi S, et al. The SARS, MERS and novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemics, the newest and biggest global health threats: what lessons have we learned? Int J Epidemiol 2020; 49:717-726.
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/ijm.v12i6.5043 | |
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Hussein S, Qurbani K, Hamzah H, Motevaseli E. Altered severity of the current SARS-CoV-2 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Iran J Microbiol. 2020;12(6):657-660.
