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Recent Trends and Treatment Approach in COVID-19—A Short Review

Nistara S. Chawla, Satish Kumar Anumula *

Department of Physiotherapy, School of Applied Medical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara.144411, Punjab, India.

*Corresponding author: Satish Kumar Anumula

Published: August 27,2020

Abstract

COVID-19 has emerged as a pandemic in the month of March 2020. It was first discovered in China, with a geographical focus in the city of Wuhan.  Since then, it has spread to various parts of the world. Initially, the virus was called as 2019-nCoV, but the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses later termed it as the SARS CoV2 virus, given its similarity to the SARS CoV virus of 2003. According to WHO, more than 8 million confirmed cases have been reported so far and the numbers keep on rising every day. In India, there have been 380,532 confirmed COVID positive cases 12,573 deaths according to the report released by WHO as on the 19th of June 2020. The disease outbreak is unprecedented and has managed to wreak havocs in the healthcare systems globally. COVID-19 has been declared as a public health emergency and lot of research is currently targeted in the understanding of the novel virus so as to accelerate the diagnosis and the treatment approaches for the novel virus. We bring forth an overview of the currently available data and resources in understanding about the SARS CoV2 virus, trends of transmission, the pathogenesis of the disease, clinical features, epidemiological transition of the disease in India, various tools for the diagnosis and the available treatment approaches that are currently under trail but have resulted in clinical recovery of the patients.

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How to cite this paper

Recent Trends and Treatment Approach in COVID-19—A Short Review

How to cite this paper: Nistara S. Chawla, Satish Kumar Anumula. (2020) Recent Trends and Treatment Approach in COVID-19—A Short Review. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Research, 4(4), 157-161.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/ijcemr.2020.10.006