Abstract
The lately declared-coronavirus (COVID-19) is being the main threat worldwide due to its high incidence, morbidity and global economic impacts. It is easy to spread from person to person, through infected surfaces, and the absence of vaccine make the situation more difficult to handle. This review aims to alert the pandemic evolution taken by the actual outbreak of the COVID-19, and therefore calls the highest institutions of the global health namely the World Health Organization (WHO) to reinforce the measures taken in the fight against this new virus by working tightly with each affected region and the emergency in elaborating a new vaccine.
Highlights
The COVID-19 is a new respiratory virus of the coronavirus family discovered in December 2019 in the Wuhan city in China [1]
This review aims to alert the pandemic evolution taken by the actual outbreak of the COVID-19, and calls the highest institutions of the global health namely the World Health Organization (WHO) to reinforce the measures taken in the fight against this new virus by working tightly with each affected region and the emergency in elaborating a new vaccine
What could be the reasons or factors that led this health crisis to spread all over the world, to cause such deaths and reach a pandemic level? Here, by raising the alarming and dramatic level reached by the new coronavirus, we aim to emphasize the eventual reasons or factors that might have contributed to this global health crisis and urge for immediate actions to control the spread of the disease and the need to elaborate a vaccine soon
Summary
The COVID-19 is a new respiratory virus of the coronavirus family discovered in December 2019 in the Wuhan city in China [1]. The transmission is made through contact from an infected person to another person via the swallowing of aerosol duplets or through contacts with infected surfaces or objects [3]. This new virus takes almost two weeks of incubation before the apparition of the first symptoms, which are fever, cough and trouble breathing. Antibiotics cannot be used in the treatment, as the COVID-19 is a virus. Infection prevention and control are highly recommended [8]
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