COVID-19, an Emerging Coronavirus Infection: Current Scenario and Recent Developments - An Overview

COVID-19, an Emerging Coronavirus Infection: Current Scenario and Recent Developments - An Overview

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Kuldeep Dhama, Ruchi Tiwari, Ali A. Rabaan, Ranjit Sah, D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana

During December 2019, a novel coronavirus virus (2019-nCov) emerged in China, which posed anInternational Public Health Emergency in a couple of weeks, and very recently attained the position ofa very high-risk category by World Health Organization (WHO). This virus was named the Severe AcuteRespiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy ofViruses (ICTV), and the disease referred to as Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19). Till March 8, 2020,the virus has claimed the lives of nearly 3,600 humans out a total of approximately 110,000 confirmedcases affected by this infection. The present editorial is a brief overview highlighting the most salientfeatures and facts with regards to COVID-19, an emerging coronavirus infection, its causative virus(SARS-CoV-2), the current worldwide scenario, recent developments and currently ongoing progressesto contain and control this disease which have now spread to more than 100 countries across the globe.Of note, worldwide researchers and various health agencies are all together doing their best to haltthe spread of this virus and avoid any possible pandemic situation to be faced, which otherwise wouldthreaten the lives of millions of human beings.

2020

prevention, control, current situation, recent developments, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19

DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.14.1.02

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Microbiology