Open AccessCoronavirus Pandemic: a major public health crisis for the developed and developing world
Author(s) -
Rooh Ullah,
Muhammad Suleman Rana,
Mehmood Qadir,
Muhammad Usman,
Niaz Ahmed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.12995
Subject(s) - pandemic , coronavirus , public health , china , covid-19 , developing country , virology , global health , medicine , virus , environmental health , economic growth , political science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , nursing , pathology , law
Pandemic of novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in China is now become global public health crisis. At present 87.64% of the world is infected by this deadly illness. The risk from this epidemic depends on the nature of the virus, including how well it transmits from person to person, and the complications resulting from this current illness. The novel coronavirus has killed thousands of people in China and other countries as well; its rate of mortality is increasing day by day. There is an urgent need to control the virus by developing vaccine or any other antiviral drugs to save the world from this deadly viral infection.