The world and our country go through a pandemic period called Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), which affects the health of billions of people both physically and psychologically, and their social life and economy. On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China, Hubei province. Findings compatible with fever, dispnea and pneumonic infiltration in the lung were detected in the cases. On January 7, 2020, this was identified as a new coronavirus that has not previously been detected in humans. The name of the disease was accepted as COVID-19, the virus was named as Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 due to its similarity to SARS-CoV-2. The WHO classified the COVID-19 epidemic as the “public health emergency on an International scale” on January 30 and defined it as a global epidemic (pandemic) on March 10 due to the spread and severity of the virus to other countries. Studies on COVID-19 started on 10th of January in our country and on January 22, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey held its first meeting and measures were taken. The first COVID-19 case occurred on March 11, after neighboring countries such as Europe and Iran. After this date, local measures have been taken across the country to gradually prevent and reduce the spread of the virus in the community. It is the responsibility of the whole community to pay attention to the measures taken. The most important rules in preventing infection are the use of masks, maintaining social distance and paying attention to all measures. Healthcare professionals worked intensely and devotedly during this period, fulfilling their duties and will still continue till this period ends.