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Highlights
In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia was identified in Wuhan, China
This novel viral outbreak, named Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has since quickly spread around the world. It is recognized as a major public health concern and was declared a pandemic disease by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.1 There are similarities to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2012, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus primarily targets the respiratory system and is transmitted via air droplets and physical contact
Patients were evaluated for viral pneumonia through the special testing utilizing wholegenome sequencing, cell cultures, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Summary
This novel viral outbreak, named Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has since quickly spread around the world. It is recognized as a major public health concern and was declared a pandemic disease by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.1 There are similarities to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2012, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus primarily targets the respiratory system and is transmitted via air droplets and physical contact. The virus was recognized as genus beta coronavirus and isolated from biologic samples, placing it alongside SARS and MERS.[2]
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