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Today, our understanding towards COVID-19 pandemic is that it is contagious and based on the behaviour of the virus, the signs and symptoms of this viral resemble the viral infection like Severe Acute-Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) Currently, documented vaccines or drugs are not available for the treatment of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 viral infection The main objective of this article is to compile the available literature on the treatment modalities for COVID-19, currently being advocated Furthermore, there is no time to wait for evidence-based treatment, hence in such a scenario;an attempt has been made to col-lect the available scientiic literature and understand the treatment of the disease with this insight A MEDLINE-PUBMED search was performed in the surge of the treatment strategies for COVID-19 using the keywords ”COVID-19”, ”nCoV”, ”novel coronavirus”, ”treatment of coronavirus” and ”therapies” We have reviewed the multiple articles from recently published literature and various pre-print proofs from up-to-date journals Based on the reviewed lit-erature, various categories of drugs are under trial or have been tried for the treatment of nCoV infection, which are categorised as medications (anti-viral agents, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, ACE-2 inhibitors, etc ), immune therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, plasma exchange therapy, and blood puriication therapy, etc We attempted to go through the literature available for the treatment of COVID-19 and tried to compile it all together Still, clinical trials are under process, and there are no evidence-based treatment strategies available to manage the cases of COVID-19 patients
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