A novel coronavirus (currently named 2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019.  WHO declared a global health emergency on 30 January 2020, and a number of blood and tissue donor guidelines have been issued - largely based on previous guidelines for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. Like SARS and MERS, 2019-nCoV displayed high mortality but low infectivity in the early weeks, with limited person-to-person transmission.  However, the epidemic quickly changed to display lower mortality but higher infectivity with increasing evidence of sustained person-to-person transmission. Various public health measures taken at a local or national level are likely to aid and/or complicate donor assessment, while the rapid evolution of the epidemic demands a precautionary yet flexible approach to suitability guidelines.
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• Coronavirus - 2019-nCoVrecommendation from donor suitability committee
  
  
• Information from registries whose operations are impacted by Coronavirus

We reached 36 million donors! 

You can find an overview of the total amount of donors and cord blood units in our database, including a specification per member on our web page: Statistics WMDA.