An overview of SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) disease pandemic

Rai, Sagorika; Banerjee, Pallabi; Chandra, Anshuman; Qamar, Imteyaz

doi:10.21608/nrmj.2020.107541

An overview of SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) disease pandemic

Document Type : Review Article

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School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, U.P. 201312, India

10.21608/nrmj.2020.107541

Abstract

A novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) overflow event, with its epicenter point in the Wuhan (China), has risen as the health of the public crisis is of global concern. This started as an episode in the December, (2019), and till the 28^th of February, (2020), there have about 83,704 committed cases of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) disease at the global level, including 2,859 deaths. This showed overall cases including 3.41% of the fatality rate. At this point more than 58 nations or regions were affected with SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) disease. As an important role of the worldwide response to manage and contain this pandemic, significant accentuation was put to create research knowledge in order to manage proof based response to carry the infection. This disease was named as severe respiratory syndrome COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), owing to its hereditary similarities with the SARS infection. Individual to-individual transmission of the COVID-19 contamination led to the isolation of the patients that were treated with various types of treatments. Various measures have been executed to decrease the individual to-individual transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, to stop the present outbreak. Unique considerations and many efforts ought to be applied in the populations to decrease the transmission of COVID-19 including health care providers, kids and older individuals. The aims of this review were to highlight the epidemiology, transmission, diagnosis and future instructions of COVID-19 to stop spreading of this lethal disease.

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