Abstract

A REVIEW ON: COVID-19, THE STEP TOWARDS PREVENTION, TREATMENT

Swamini S. Waghchaure* and Yamini D. Potkule

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (covid19) is a condition caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), it is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection, firstly emerged in Wuhan city of china, then spread whole around the world. The elderly and small children under the 10 years and people with underlying diseases are susceptible to infection more readily. The clinical symptoms of covid-19 patients include fever, pneumonia, dry cough, fatigue and respiratory infection, to stop such infection; there is need of effective medical treatments along with some therapies. In this review, the various drugs used against covid19 were discussed along with mechanism of action, also the convalescent plasma therapy were discussed to improve viral outbreak.

Keywords: COVID 19, Transmission of coronavirus, antibiotics and antiviral drugs, convalescent plasma therapy.