The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Pandemic: An Overview to Control Human-wildlife and Human-human Interactions

Prevention of high-risk human-wildlife and human-human interactions, which can accelerate the occurrence of future outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics, requires global efforts. these efforts should focus on reducing the risk of contact with wildlife, pre-outbreak surveillance of wildlife and high-risk people, improvement of wildlife trade biosafety, and learning lessons from the previous attacks. international collaborations, building on the experiences learnt during facing the attacks by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SAR-Cov), Middle east respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MeRS-Cov) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2), will accelerate implementation of novel anti-viral prevention and control measures to avoid occurrence of such devastating viral outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics in the future.