The NCD/COVID-19 intimidating relationship: An urgent call for countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

摘要

A modeling study published in the second semester of 2020 has suggested how two out of 10 people globally are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 mostly because of underlying non-communicable diseases (NCD) [1]. At the same time, the gigantic efforts to face the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the disruption of regular care provision services in more than one/third of all countries in the world [2].