A review on Coronavirus - the pandemic causing global crisis

ABSTRACT

The word COVID - 19 is abbreviated as CO - Corona, VI - Virus, D - Disease and 19 indicates the year it emerged. The occurrence of coronavirus disease had been confirmed in around 210 countries and territories. The virus had infected 9,360,758 people worldwide. The most severely affected countries include USA, Brazil, U.K, Russia, Spain and India is inching towards the most affected country. Telangana confirms 9,553 confirmed cases till June 24-2020. A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease which spreads across large regions and countries affecting many people. The 2019- 2020 Covid -19 pandemic is expected to have negative effect on the global economy, for years to come with a drop in GDP accompained by increase in unemployment around the world. The basic strategies in the control of an outbreak are containment and mitigation. Another strategy called as suppression strategy includes stringent population - wide social distancing, isolation of cases and quarantine can be considered.