Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease (Mar 2020)

Emerging prophylaxis strategies against COVID-19

  • Sumita Agrawal,
  • Akhil Dhanesh Goel,
  • Nitesh Gupta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1289
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 90, no. 1

Abstract

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The Novel corona virus 2019 which started as an outbreak in China in December 2019 has rapidly spread all over the world, such that on 11th March 2020 WHO declared this disease as pandemic. The emergency that the world faces today demands that we develop urgent and effective measures to protect people at high risk of transmission. WHO has accelerated research in diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for this novel coronavirus.

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