Covid-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a disease first described in Wuhan City in Hubei Province in China at the end of 2019. Since then, Covid-19 has gone on to cause a global pandemic with over 1 million cases and 60,000 deaths at the time of writing. 

For healthcare workers and clinicians who may not yet have treated Covid-19 patients, this section aims to give a general overview of this emerging zoonotic infection, no matter your specialty or area of expertise..