The virus crisis affects Orthopaedic surgery and scientific activities worldwide

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There is no doubt that 2020 did not start well. At the end of December 2019, an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), subsequently named the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei region, China. Since then, the disease spread globally, resulting in the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemia (from the Greek pan- "all" and dēmos "people"; meaning "pertaining to all people”). As of March 28, 2020, the pandemia led to worldwide crisis (from the Greek krisis used by Hippocrates and Galen as the "turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating recovery or death"); the overall rate of deaths per number of diagnosed cases was 4.6% ranging from 0.2% to 15% according to age group and other health problems [1]. …