European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A REVIEW ON COVID-19 OUTBREAK – AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS

M. Gnana Ruba Priya*, Shravya Lakshmi S., Chinju Susan Chacko and Bincy Raj

ABSTRACT

The COVID is a large family of dreadful viruses known to cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory tract infection. The severity of the infection may be visible as pneumonia, acute respiratory syndrome, and even death. The epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), originating in Wuhan, China, has become a major public health challenge for not only China but also countries around the world. On December 31, 2019, mysterious cases of pneumonia were detected in the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province. On January 7, 2020, the causative agent was identified as a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and the disease was later named as COVID-19 by the WHO. There are no treatment options available for the virus as such, limited to the use of anti-HIV drugs and/or other antivirals such as Remdesivir and Galidesivir. For the containment of the virus, it is recommended to quarantine the infected and to follow good hygiene practices. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, tiredness, and dry cough, a small population of patients appeared gastrointestinal infection symptoms and asymptomatic cases also causes corona virus. In this article, we propose a brief review of the literature in relation of this new pathogen and its disease.

Keywords: covid19, virus, corona. Pandemic.