Comprehensive update on current outbreak of novel coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV).

ABSTRACT: Recently, a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a respiratory infection with significant concern for global public health hazards. With an initial suspicion of the animal to the human transmission for earlier cases, now the paradigm has shifted towards human to human transmission via droplets, contacts and/or through fomites. with each passing day, more and more confirmed cases are being reported worldwide which has alarmed the global authorities including World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China to take immediate action in order to reduce the transmission and subsequent mortalities associated with COVID-19 to as minimum as possible. Unfortunately, like the previous C

SUBMITTER: Sahu KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7186600 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature