CORONA VIRUS: A BRIEF REVIEW ON COVID-19
Atre Omkar*
Abstract
A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or (2019-nCoV) with unknown origin spread in Guangdong market province of China. The pandemic was initially caused in local market of Wuhan in dec-19 and thus it was named as coronavirus 19. this infection of covid-19 was soon reached all over the world in no time. Corona virus causes respiratory infection including pneumonia, cold, sneezing and coughing while in animal it causes diarrhea and upper respiratory diseases. Corona virus enters in human cell through membrane ACE-2 exopeptidase receptor. The presence of COVID-19 was manifested by several symptoms, ranging from asymptomatic/mild symptoms to severe illness and death. However, due to the worldwide spread of the virus, COVID-19 has become a serious concern in the medical community and was declared as novel covid19 by WHO in2019. Currently some antiviral medications are given as a supportive treatment for covid 19 which gave appreciable results in clinical trials along with some emergency approval of the vaccines for treatment. The number of covid cases now has raised to 15,20,00,000 (march-april). Thus, the main purpose of this review is to provide an overview of covid-19 along with diseases current treatment and future prospects of vaccine development and government`s strategy for management to covid-19.
Keywords: A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or (2019-nCoV) with unknown origin spread in Guangdong market province of China. The pandemic was initially caused in local market of Wuhan in dec-19 and thus it was n
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