Jorjani Biomedicine Journal (Mar 2020)

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): review study

  • abolfazl jafari-sales,
  • Homeira Khaneshpour,
  • Mehrdad Pashazadeh,
  • Rozita Nasiri

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 4 – 10

Abstract

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On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan-China Health Commission reported a case of pneumonia in the city. The first symptoms began in mid-December 2019. Clinically isolated specimens identified the coronavirus as the cause of the disease. It was first shown as 2019-nCoV, and as the number of victims of the coronavirus crossed the border of thousands of people, the World Health Organization chose the official name COVID-19 for its illness. Although it appears to be of animal origin, it is rapidly transmitting from person to person around the world. The World Health Organization released a statement calling the outbreak of the new Corona virus a Public Health Emergency Situations that poses a threat to the whole world, not just China. In this study highlights how the virus is transmitted, the clinical signs, the laboratory characteristics, the pathogenicity of the virus, Vaccines, and the prevention and control of the spread of the virus.

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