Coronavirus (COVID-19): An insight
The newly arrived coronavirus has come as a turmoil. You see newspapers, news channels, social media all have the top stories highlighting the frenzy world. A small virus has changed the world landscape. What is COVID-19? COVID-19 is referred as the term for the infection resulting from the novel coronavirus also known as nCoV, official name being Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). So, SARS-CoV2 is the virus that causes the disease, COVID-19; both officially named on February 11, 2020. The virus was named by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) on the basis of its genetic struct ure. And the disease obtained its name as COVID-19 by WHO in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Why COVID- 2019? The disease caused by Coronavirus has come to be known as COVID-19(Cornoavirus Disease). So, people infected with cornovirus or the positive cases will said to have been diagnosed with COVID-19. ...