Journal of University Medical & Dental College (Sep 2020)

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)

  • Aysha Azhar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.37723/jumdc.v11i3.487
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3

Abstract

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The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been emerged from a major city named Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China. It appears to have the potential to cause a major health problem globally. Earlier it is called 2019-nCoV but now this virus is taxonomically termed SARS-CoV-2. World Health Organization has named it as “coronavirus disease 2019” and abbreviated “COVID-19” [1].