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The recently emerged CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) is now considered as a pandemic threat worldwide It is novel class of virus that affects the respiratory tract and leads to difficulty in breathing The virus originated in bats and was transmitted to humans It has been known to infect human hosts and cause respiratory diseases Currently, there is still dearth of information on foremost source of viral transmission along with exact pathogenic mechanism of action Besides this, the hospital outbreak of super-spreading virus has made a greater concern about global health due to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV which are highly pahogenic There have been around 1,519,503 reported cases of coronavirus disease worldwide and 88,549 reported deaths along with 3,30,916 total recovered patients to date (9/4/2020) The disease is transmitted by inhalation of infected droplets The symptoms are usually fever, sputum production, nasal congestion, pneumonia, sore throat,breathlessness Diagnosis of disease is done by routine lab findings, specimen examination using RT-PCR and by using diagnostic kits Prevention entails regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose and home isolation of suspected cases Treatment is usually supportive of ayurvedic, herbal medicines and allopathic combinations mostly antiviral drugs This revelation may exert crucial guidance for understanding the viral infection and measures to prevent and treat infection
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