Abstract
The COVID-19 is a contagious viral disease, was first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and became the whole world on alert. The mortality rate in top most countries in Asia with special reference to Pakistan has been focused. Since February 26 to September 2020 the total confirmed cases and mortality rate was measured through Wikipedia and the notable journals. Iran is the only country having highest number of deaths (5.73%) followed by Indonesia (3.77%) while Saudi Arabia shows the lowest number of deaths as 1.39%. In Pakistan the first case was confirmed in 26th February, 2020. The nCov-19 has closely related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) hence SARS COV-2 was named. This virus is responsible for more than 33.9 million deaths in over all the world as of 20th September, 2020. The number of new cases is increasing time to time. Sindh province of Pakistan has reported the highest number of cases till September, 20, 2020 as compared to other parts of the country and has the highest number of death followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Because of the person to person contact the disease is spreading rapidly. The individuals who has already infected with other diseases like cancer or diabetic etc. are vulnerable. The nCOV-19 is the most contagious due to its mode of transmission. There is still no vaccine is available for the treatment of disease caused by nCoV-2019. It is therefore the only option to control this pandemic is to adopt effective preventive measures.
Highlights
The government of China reported nCOV-19 as a causative agent of the infection in lower respiratory tract for the first time which was named as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP)
Iran is the only country In Asia having the highest number of deaths (5.73%) followed by Indonesia (3.77%) while Saudi Arabia showed the lowest number of deaths 1.39% (Table 2)
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, formally designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This disease represents a pandemic threat to global public health (Gorbalenya et al, 2020; Kupferschmidt and Cohen, 2020)
Summary
The government of China reported nCOV-19 as a causative agent of the infection in lower respiratory tract for the first time which was named as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP). This virus is highly contagious and causes the disease with symptoms like fever, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia, and dyspnea (Chen et al, 2020). Due to the high rate of transmission, on January 30, 2020 the WHO declared it is a public health emergency in global concern and communicated to all the countries to come out for the battle against the disease (WHO, 2020)
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