Abstract

THE NOVEL HUMAN CORONAVIRUS: AN OVERVIEW

Savardekar N.*, Gandhe A., Naware N., Karpe M. and Kadam V.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known as the Novel Coronavirus which emerged in Huanan Market, Wuhan, China and spread around the world. Genomic analysis revealed that SARS-CoV-2 is phylogenetically related to severe acute respiratory syndrome-like (SARS-like) bat viruses, therefore bats could be the possible primary reservoir. In fact, COVID-19 is not the first illness that has made the leap from bats to humans. The viruses that causes SARS, MERS, Ebola, Nipah, Hendra and Marburg can all be traced back to bats, according to the UC Berkley Researchers, although all were spread through intermediate hosts. There is no clinically approved antiviral drug or vaccine available to be used against COVID-19. However, few broad-spectrum antiviral drugs have been evaluated against COVID-19 in clinical trials, resulted in clinical recovery.

Keywords: Morphology, Types, Origin, Transmission, Pathogenicity, Characteristics, Outbreaks, Symptoms, Related-Diseases, Prevention and Treatment.