Rupam Das*, Kannan J, Joel Alcarez and Soumitra Roy Chowdhury
The beginning of the year 2020 has come up with a pandemic of the new coronavirus. This pandemic is so much severe that before gaining any knowledge of the virus and finding any ways to confront it, a large number of people have been infected and died worldwide, even in first world countries. But, as to counter this new virus it is extremely important to know about the behavior of the virus, research efforts are going on and researchers are discovering new information about this virus every day. Initially, it was assumed that if a person has fever, sore threat and breathing problem, he may have been infected by the virus. But, later it is found that the virus may be present in a person with no such symptoms. There are various structural similarities of this virus with SARS-COV and MARS-COV. But, the behavior difference of SARS-COV-2 with SARS and MARS makes it a pandemic. Various medicines have been tried on COVID-19 infected people but no one has been proven to be 100% successful. Also, several vaccine development projects have got success on pre-clinical phase but they can’t be commercialized without successful human trial which is a time consuming process. In this situation, we need to rely on social rules for avoiding coming into contact of the virus. This review study summarizes some of the basic features of COVID-19 like SARS-COV-2 structure, pathogenesis, lifecycle, symptoms found, interventions, mortality rate, diagnosis and treatments available. All these information together can help us understand the attacking behavior of the virus and finding new directions for confronting it.
Published Date: 2024-07-19; Received Date: 2020-05-20
