CORONAVIRUS DISEASE COVID-19: EBMT RECOMMENDATIONS UPDATE MARCH 30, 2020

A novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 of a zoonotic origin emerged in the beginning of this year and the infection called Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19) started spreading worldwide. The classified COVID-19 a pandemic on March 19 with rapidly increasing number of cases in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. The pressure on the health care system is very high in several countries and increasing numbers of infected health care staff are being reported. Many European countries have imposed major restrictions on meetings, travel, and everyday life. This is likely to impact greatly on the transplant activity in Europe as in many other parts of the world…read more