Responding to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Disease

Abstract

In early December 2019, few pneumonia cases were identified caused by some unknown agent in the Wuhan, capital city of Province Hubei of China. The agent was later on identified as an enveloped RNA beta Coronavirus which was subsequently named by WHO as COVID-19 and the coronavirus disease 2019. Till March 12, 2020, the worldwide 125048 cases and 4613 (3.69%) deaths in 117 countries have been reported However, Guan et al. reported 1099 patients with confirmed Covid-19 with death rate of 1.4%. It is pertinent to note that during 1918-19 flu (H1N1) pandemic about 500 million people or onethird of the world's population became infected with flu virus with about 50 million deaths worldwide. In February 1957, H2N2 virus triggered a pandemic...................................................................