Open AccessNotable Variants of SARS-CoV-2
Author(s) -
Hassan S. Naji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of medical and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2593-8339
DOI - 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.2.742
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , outbreak , virology , coronavirus , betacoronavirus , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The current coronavirus pandemic has brought many deaths and affected economies around the world. The causative agent of COVID-19 is identified as SARS-CoV-2, a close relative to SARS-CoV that caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory distress in 2002-2003. During the course of the pandemic, there has been many reports of mutations that occurred to SARS-CoV-2 with several lineages that has been identified around the globe. In this paper, a summary of the notable variants of SARS-CoV-2 is discussed.