Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Beginning from China on December 2019, COVID-19 epidemic has spreaded all over the world in a short period of time and has been a pandemic. In challenge with this pandemic quarantine technique has been used widely after tens of years. In the course of the pandemic, many countries evacuated their citizens from affected regions and combined the evacuation with quarantine process. Some examples of these countries who evacuated their citizens are Germany, Italy, Spain, and USA. In further times, during the course of pandemic, according to spread, other countries evacuated their citizens from these countries too. Despite being the origin of the pandemic, in later times Wuhan was also a place where people were evacuated to. Evacuation and quarantine have caused social and psychological impacts on people and some of them took place in mainstream media. In this review article, evacuation and quarantine processes as well as the society's reactions to these, have been compiled.
DOI
10.3906/sag-2004-21
Keywords
Quarantine, evacuation
First Page
534
Last Page
543
Recommended Citation
ŞENCAN, İRFAN and KUZİ, SEMANUR
(2020)
"Global threat of COVID 19 and evacuation of the citizens of different countries,"
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences: Vol. 50:
No.
9, Article 8.
https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-2004-21
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/medical/vol50/iss9/8
