The Novel Coronavirus COVID-19
The Novel Coronavirus – A Brief Introduction about the COVID-19 The Novel Coronavirus, now known as COVID-19 is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus belonging to a large family of viruses known as Coronaviridae. Some coronaviruses cause illness in human and others cause illness in animals such as bats, camels. Human coronaviruses cause mild illness such as the common cold. Sometimes, animal coronaviruses can mutate to infect and spread among human, causing severe disease such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) as occurred in 2002 and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) as emerged in 2012. But recently, a new strain of coronavirus named as COVID-19 by World Health Organization (WHO) has been emerged which initially affecting people in Hubei Province, China and now spread in several countries. This outbreak is similar to earlier outbreaks caused by two pathogenic human respiratory coronaviruses (SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV). As per the specialists, it is like...