Open AccessCORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)
Author(s) -
Aisha Azhar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of university medical and dental college
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2310-5542
pISSN - 2221-7827
DOI - 10.37723/jumdc.v11i3.487
Subject(s) - covid-19 , coronavirus , virology , pandemic , disease , betacoronavirus , china , geography , coronavirus infections , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , pathology
The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been emerged from a major city named Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China. It appears to have the potential to cause a major health problem globally. Earlier it is called 2019-nCoV but now this virus is taxonomically termed SARS-CoV-2. World Health Organization has named it as “coronavirus disease 2019” and abbreviated “COVID-19” [1].