A REVIEW OF COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS DISEASE-2019) DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENTS AND PREVENTION
Gautam D. Mehetre*, Pratibha G. Mehetre and Pavan P. Chinchole
ABSTRACT
There is a new world health crisis threatening the public with spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019).
Since December 2019, when Covid-19 emerged in Hunan seafood market at Wuhan, South China and rapidly
spread throughout the world, the virus outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international
concern by World Health Organization (WHO). We here summarized the current clinical characteristics data to
guide potential COVID-19 about Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatments and Prevention of COVID-19. In this review,
we extracted data from various Research Reports, WHO guidelines and other articles. It is important to caution the
readers that new data updating nearly every hour regarding clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment strategies,
and outcomes of COVID-19. Throughout the world the disease has caused varying degrees of illness. Patient
shows various symptoms usually fever, cough, sore throat, breathlessness, fatigue, and malaise among others. The
disease is being cured through general treatment, symptomatic treatment, by using antiviral drugs, oxygen therapy
and by the immune system. It is necessary to identify the potential cases as soon as possible and isolate the
suspected people from the confirmed cases of COVID-19, to prevent the potential transmission of infection to
other patients and health care staff.
Keywords: Coronavirus Disease-2019, COVID-19, respiratory syndrome, symptoms, SARS, treatment.
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