The First Patient with COVID-19 in Our Hospital and the Clinical Results of the Approaches at the Beginning of the Pandemic

Abstract

Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome coronavirus firstly appeared on December 2019 in Wuhan, China then It started to spread whole world and became a global epidemic in a very short time. On March 11, 2020, It is declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization and within the same day, the first case o the new Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) in Turkey was detected and declared by the Turkish government. In this case report, we examined the hospitalization and diagnosis process of our hospital’s first COVID-19 case who was being followed up firstly at the internal medicine clinic outside of the pandemic area. Moreover, we aimed to note the results of our first approaches to cases in the early stage of the pandemic and its effects on our all health personnel team.