The family Coronaviridae of coronoviruses includes those that infect birds and also mammals like camels, masked palm civets, and bats. Different host animals may exhibit diverse coronavirus infection symptoms and tissue tropism. Three significant coronavirus outbreaks have been documented to date, with the most recent one being caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, also known as SARS-CoV-2 or Coronavirus Disease-2019) (COVID-19). In recent years, there have been significant costs to human health, quality of life, and the economy due to the introduction of novel infectious illnesses. In the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the province of Hubei, a novel coronavirus that causes pneumonia was discovered at the end of 2019. It quickly expanded throughout China, starting an epidemic there before spreading around the world. The disease was given the COVID-19 designation by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2020, which stands for 2019 coronavirus disease. Although the specific origin of the outbreak is still
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