Towards the end of 2019, an unanticipated outbreak, coronavirus also referred to as COVID-19's first cases occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. In early 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic as a Public Health emergency of international concern. COVID-19 is a transmissible disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. The COVID-19 puts a spotlight on numerous issues varying from educational, social, political, and economic that were already present before the pandemic. Hence, in this short report, we present the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a broader scale across the
Globalization and ecological disruption associated with newly emerging infectious diseases, and with reemerging infections previously thought to be under control can lead to the surge of an unexpected pandemic, which is evident throughout the world with the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic. The newly emerged havoc-inducing disease COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. The major escalation of the disease is conventionally trailed back to January of 2020 in the Chinese province of Hubei, the wet markets of the principal city of Wuhan which is presumed to be the specific inventive location of the sudden eruption of the infection [2]. Authorities in 217 countries and territories have reported about 81.5 million Covid-19 cases and 1.8 million deaths since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December 2019 [3]. COVID-19 is a member of the Coronaviridae (CoV) subfamily of the Coronavirinae family, which belongs to the order Nidovirales. The subfamily consists of 40 varieties of single-stranded RNA-viruses existing in bats and wild birds, which can develop to infect humans and non-human mammals and birds. Due to their capability to recombine, mutate, and infect multiple species and cell
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