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Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): An Update
Author(s) -
Niranjan Nayak,
SK Rai
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nepal medical college journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2676-1424
DOI - 10.3126/nmcj.v22i1-2.30049
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , pandemic , pneumonia , virus , virology , virus diseases , coronavirus , disease , corona (planetary geology) , novel virus , cluster (spacecraft) , betacoronavirus , viral pneumonia , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , biology , genome , biochemistry , astrobiology , gene , venus , computer science , programming language
At present, a novel Corona Virus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome corona virus (SARS-Cov-2) has caused pandemic infection. This virus has been thought to be of zoonotic origin specially originating from bats. This Virus originated from wet market in Wuhan, China in December 2019. A small cluster of Pneumonia cases that occured in Wuhan in December 2019 was named COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease) by World Health Organization (WHO). The Covid-19 is still on the rise across the globe. As there is no treatment available for the SARS-Cov-2, it is important to mantain social distance, practice frequent hand-washing and use mask.

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