European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

REVIEW ON BASIC FACTS & INFORMATION OF CORONAVIRUS

Vipul Hanskumar Jain*, Sulbha Gopal Patil, Sandip Amarsing Tadvi and Sunil Pandit Pawar

ABSTRACT

Coronaviruses are enveloped non-segmented positive-sense RNA viruses belonging to the family Coronaviridae and the order Nidovirales which is broadly distributed in humans and other mammals. Although most human coronavirus infections are mild, but the epidemics of the two beta coronaviruses, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), have caused more than 10,000 cumulative cases in the past two decades. And now a novel coronavirus namely called as 2019-nCoV is a new strain which has not been previously identified in humans emerged as major global health threats. Thus this study aims to assess the awareness of this novel coronovirus among general public and to provide some basic facts & information on this novel coronavirus. This study basically involves the general guidelines for public that how one should react in concern of coronavirus. Also it includes the recommendations from WHO for general public that how to protect oneself from this life threatening virus. Our recommendation is to conduct a continuous health education campaign about the awareness of coronavirus and also to provide the general guidelines & some basic information about symptoms, spreading pattern, mutation, infection, care and treatment of coronavirus among general public.

Keywords: Coronavirus, Novel Coronavirus, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, 2019-nCoV