Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10225, 2020, Pages 664-666

  Habibi, Roojin ^a   Burci, Gian Luca ^b   de Campos, Thana C ^c   Chirwa, Danwood ^d   Cinà, Margherita ^a   Dagron, Stéphanie ^e   Eccleston Turner, Mark ^f   Forman, Lisa ^g   Gostin, Lawrence O ^h   Meier, Benjamin Mason ⁱ   Negri, Stefania ^j   Ooms, Gorik ^k   Sekalala, Sharifah ^l   Taylor, Allyn ^m   Yamin, Alicia Ely ⁿ   Hoffman, Steven J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^k LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONSENSUS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; FREEDOM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL LAW; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACISM; SOCIAL STIGMA; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; XENOPHOBIA; GLOBAL HEALTH; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COVID-19;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS; INTERNATIONAL LAW; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85079870863     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30373-1     Document Type: Note

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