Review Article - Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022) Volume 12, Issue 92

Corona Virus: A detailed review of COVID-19.

In late December 2019, the health officials in China reported of a mysterious pneumonia with no known Etiology. Prompt genome analysis revealed that the disease was the cause of a novel coronavirus. As the outbreak continued to spread out at a remarkable pace, the World Health Organization (WHO) had to declare it a pandemic on March 11, 2020. SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus to infect humans and the causative agent for COVID-19. Previously, two coronavirus epidemics raised international concern, SARS in 2002–2003 and MERS in 2012. As for the new virus, it is highly infectious and has already killed over 200,000 people with an estimated sCFR (symptomatic case fatality risk) of 1.4% (0.9–2.1%) (Wu JT, Leung K, Bushman M, 2020).

Author(s): Jyoti Devi, Ashish Kumar*, Ajay Kumar

Abstract Full Text PDF