European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

COVID-19: A BRIEF NARRATIVE

Bharat Sontakke*, Vishwajit Deshmukh and Satyendra C. Tripathi

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has almost spread to all the countries till date. SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of this disease. At present COVID-19 has caused 41,16,767 confirmed cases and 2,82,872 deaths worldwide. The early diagnosis and management of the disease remains a major challenge all over. We searched the literature in “Pubmed”, “Web of knowledge”, “Medline”, “Google Scholar” and “World Health Organization-WHO” using the keywords “severe acute respiratory syndrome”, “Coronavirus”, “COVID-19, “2019-nCoV”, “SARS-CoV-2”, “SARS”, “Epidemiology” “Transmission”, “Pathogenesis” and “Clinical Characteristics”. In this overview topic, our aim is to summarize the updated epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and prevention & control of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This knowledge will be essential to both manage the current pandemic and to contribute the measures to prevent such outbreaks in near future.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Corona Virus, Virus.