Abstract
During December 2019, a novel coronavirus virus (2019-nCov) emerged in China, which posed an International Public Health Emergency in a couple of weeks, and very recently attained the position of a very high-risk category by World Health Organization (WHO). This virus was named the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), and the disease referred to as Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19). Till March 8, 2020, the virus has claimed the lives of nearly 3,600 humans out a total of approximately 110,000 confirmed cases affected by this infection. The present editorial is a brief overview highlighting the most salient features and facts with regards to COVID-19, an emerging coronavirus infection, its causative virus (SARS-CoV-2), the current worldwide scenario, recent developments and currently ongoing progresses to contain and control this disease which have now spread to more than 100 countries across the globe. Of note, worldwide researchers and various health agencies are all together doing their best to halt the spread of this virus and avoid any possible pandemic situation to be faced, which otherwise would threaten the lives of millions of human beings.
Highlights
Coronaviruses are continually evolving.Examples include the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that caused fatal outbreaks earlier, and the present emerging Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS2 Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), initially expressed as pneumonia of unknown origin, posing a significant threat to public health across the globe[1,2,3]
Till March 8, 2020, the virus has claimed the lives of nearly 3,600 humans out a total of approximately 110,000 confirmed cases affected by this infection
Worldwide researchers and various health agencies are all together doing their best to halt the spread of this virus and avoid any possible pandemic situation to be faced, which otherwise would threaten the lives of millions of human beings
Summary
Atypical exposure point of SARSCoV-2 has pointed out towards the implication of seafood market in Wuhan, China[47], as a wet-market that sells different kinds of poultry, bats, snakes, marmots and other wildlife animals for human consumption at a single place, that can act as hot spot acting as a human-animal interphase/ interaction event, where zoonotic viruses can jump to cross-species barrier-or spillover to humans through seafood tanks, presence of live-dead animals body fluids, blood, excretion or air born mode of transmission leading to the emergence of novel pathogens such as SARS-COV-2 and others[48]. One health approach need due attention for prevention and control of this disease and other probable future epidemics[2,50,51,52,67,68,69,97]
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