Open AccessA current update on viral classification, diagnosis and available treatment of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Gift Eyareosowo Oden,
Himmat Singh,
Santosh Kumar Singh,
Abhay Raizada,
Gaurav Gupta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-7442
DOI - 10.46811/apjnh/4.1.1
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , outbreak , disease , coronavirus , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , intensive care medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , computer science , telecommunications
In December of 2019, an outbreak of a disease began at Wuhan, China and would later be named the coronavirus disease2019 (covid-19) by the World Health Organization and further declared a global pandemic. Since the onset of this disease, the pattern of day to day activities had been disrupted in a bid to curb this menace to society. This paper work touches on basic viral classification, as well as structure of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the main causative agent of covid-19. This review work also sheds light on symptoms associated with this disease, mode of transmission, method of diagnosis and medications available in treating the symptoms. Potential vaccines available in India are also discussed here.