2020: The Heroes with the Lamp and Corona-Virus Pandemic

Fatemeh Bahramnezhad, Parvaneh Asgari

Abstract


Dear editor International Council of Nursing’s (ICN) theme for International Nurses Day 2020: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health focuses on the true value of nurses to the people of the world.[1] It was as though 2020 had predicted the vital role of nurses in providing health service since with the outbreak of the coronavirus in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, and its rapid spread around the world, as a severe global public health threat, the role of nurses has doubled.[2]..........


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