Tele-COVID-19: Does it improve the provision of health services?

Since the first Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) outbreak in the urban area of Wuhan (China) in December 2019, the entire society has been facing an unprecedented situation posing several challenges. The declaration of Covid-19 as pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, depicted the necessity of changes in everyday life management as we usually intended1 . Due to the lack of an effective cure, prolonged isolation, restrictive measures, physical distancing represented the mandatory emergency measures to contrast, or at least try to contain, the uncontrolled spread of this deadly disease2 . Several emergency measures were adopted worldwide by the governments, with the promulgation of emergency decrees and the temporary restructuration of the public health system, to face the resources shortage, especially in the most affected countries