Abstract

In December 2019, a large outbreak of a novel corona virus infection occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. In humans, corona viruses are among the spectrum of viruses that cause the common cold as well as more severe respiratory diseases specically, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS), which have mortality rates of 10% and 37%, respectively; both SARS and MERS are zoonotic infections. The novel corona virus that was named severe acute respiratory syndrome corona-virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses caused a pneumonia outbreak in China

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