World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A REVIEW ON GLOBAL PANDEMIC COVID-19

Biplob Dey* and Piyali Dey

ABSTRACT

SARS-CoV2 is a new virus responsible for an outbreak of respiratory illness known as COVID-19, which has spread to several countries around the world. It is single stranded positive sense RNA a capsid enveloped with a nucleoprotein comprised of matrix protein. Before developing in humans, it is first developed in animals. The virus transmitted when a person comes in contact with an animal that carries the infection and this likely occurred in the open food market in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. China quickly informed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the outbreak and shared the sequence information with the International Community after discovering the causative agent. There are six types of coronavirus which is known to infect human. Among those, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARs-CoV) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are zoonotic and highly pathogenic coronavirus that have resulted in Regional and Global Pandemic.

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