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Review Papers | Pharmaceutical Science | India | Volume 10 Issue 9, September 2021 | Rating: 4.9 / 10
A Review on COVID-19 - A Pandemic Disease
Aveek Datta | Karan Kumar Das [4]
Abstract: There is a new world health crisis threatening the public with spread of COVID-19 (Corona virus Disease - 2019). Since December 2019, when COVID-19 emerged in Hunan seafood market at Wuhan, South China and rapidly spread throughout the world. Throughout the world the disease has caused varying degrees of illness. Patient shows various symptoms usually fever, cough, sore throat, breathlessness, fatigue, and malaise among others. It has been also shown that the asymptomatic cases may be affected by COVID-19. The disease is being cured through general treatment, symptomatic treatment, by using antiviral drugs, oxygen therapy and by the immune system. It is necessary to identify the potential cases as soon as possible and isolate the suspected people from the confirmed cases of COVID-19, to prevent the potential transmission of infection to other patients and health care staffs.
Keywords: SARS COVID-19, RT - PCR, Nasopharyngeal swab, Oropharyngeal swab Treatment, Sanitizer
Edition: Volume 10 Issue 9, September 2021,
Pages: 200 - 204