Abstract
There was an outbreak of a new Coronavirus infection in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019, which caused acute respiratory syndrome of unknown etiology. The World Health Organization (WHO) named the viral causal agent as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) or COVID-19, and declared this infection as a pandemic on the 11th of March, 2020. The first case of COVID-19 infection in India was reported on late January, 2020, and since then the numbers of confirmed cases have been increasing; thus the government had announced total lockdown of all activities. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus experience mild to moderate respiratory illness, and recover without the need for special treatments. The elderly people and those with medical problems such as; cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and cancer; are more likely to develop severe illness. Globally, corona virus cases rose to more than 500,000 for the first time on the 27th of October, 2020. Within two weeks and since 30th of October, 2020, COVID-19 cases had risen by almost 25 %, and about 400,000 daily cases were reported worldwide. The United States (US) was leading the global corona virus crisis with 8.9 million recorded infections and nearly 228,000 deaths worldwide. Asia had surpassed 10 million infections of the new corona virus on the 31of October, 2020, and India reported an average of 48,000 cases daily with a total of 8 million cases. The aim of this review was to explore the epidemiological prevalence of COVID-19 in India along with age and gender stratified prevalence of this viral infection.
Highlights
Reports of the spread of a new viral infection were recorded from Wuhan, China in the late December, 2019; named as coronavirus causing acute respiratory syndrome
Metintas, (2020) revealed that the elderly and those people suffering from medical illness including; diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and\ or cancer are more sensitive to severe illness
The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported on the 30th of January, 2020 and since the numbers of confirmed cases had increased significantly
Summary
Reports of the spread of a new viral infection were recorded from Wuhan, China in the late December, 2019; named as coronavirus causing acute respiratory syndrome. According to Balogun, (2020), the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this viral infection as pandemic on 11th of March, 2020; naming it as Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) or COVID-19. A recent study conducted by Jin et al, (2020) reported that most people infected with the COVID-19 experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without the need for special treatments. Metintas, (2020) revealed that the elderly and those people suffering from medical illness including; diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and\ or cancer are more sensitive to severe illness. McIntosh et al, (2020) reported that in chest X rays; unilateral lung infiltrates were found in 25 % and bilateral lung infiltrates were recorded in 75 % of COVID-19 patients
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