Elle-Mall Sadrak

Elle-Mall Sadrak

Family Physician, Member of COVID-19 working group of the Family Physicians Association of Estonia

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  • The Role of Family Physicians in the Coronavirus Crisis

    09 June 2021

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    RiTo No. 43, 2021

    On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus epidemic a pandemic. In Estonia, the first case of infection was confirmed on 27 February 2020. The Board of the Family Physicians Association of Estonia heard about it on the same day, in a train, on their way to the conference of family doctors in Narva. On 12 March 2020, the Health Board of Estonia announced that the number of cases had increased to 27 and the virus was spreading locally. In the late evening of that day, emergency situation was declared in Estonia. It was to last until 1 May. On 25 March, the first death case due to COVID-19 in Estonia was reported.

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