Open AccessCoronavirus: COVID-19-Epidemiology, Treatment, Prevention and Control
Author(s) -
Chinemerem Dorathy Udegbe,
E. Bassey Effiong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of advances in microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-7116
DOI - 10.9734/jamb/2020/v20i630253
Subject(s) - pandemic , transmission (telecommunications) , outbreak , epidemiology , coronavirus , public health , environmental health , disease , medicine , covid-19 , china , infection control , virology , global health , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , geography , pathology , archaeology , electrical engineering , engineering
Coronavirus infection is a zoonotic disease of viral origin. The SARS-CoV-2 is the novel virus that causes the ongoing pandemic affecting the global community hence a very big threat to the global public health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected Wuhan, China and reported to World Health Organization (WHO) country office in China on 31st December 2019. It has since been spreading, resulting in an ongoing pandemic. As at 19 May, there are about 4.8 million cases of Covid-19 with 316,169 deaths reported in more 188 countries of the world. The initial transmission appeared to be from an animal source, but there has been person to person transmission in the affected countries. A lot of preventive and control measures have employed to severe transmission. Strategies in the control of an outbreak are containment or suppression and mitigation. Currently there is no specific vaccine or treatment for COVID-19. This work reviewed the Coronavirus Disease 19, its epidemiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control.