Open AccessEmerging prophylaxis strategies against COVID-19
Author(s) -
Sumita Agrawal,
Akhil Dhanesh Goel,
Nitesh Gupta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
monaldi archives for chest disease. pulmonary series/monaldi archives for chest disease/monaldi archives for chest disease. cardiac series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2465-101X
pISSN - 1122-0643
DOI - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1289
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , china , virology , coronavirus , medicine , disease , geography , medical emergency , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science , telecommunications , archaeology , pathology
The Novel corona virus 2019 which started as an outbreak in China in December 2019 has rapidly spread all over the world, such that on 11th March 2020 WHO declared this disease as pandemic. The emergency that the world faces today demands that we develop urgent and effective measures to protect people at high risk of transmission. WHO has accelerated research in diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for this novel coronavirus.