::INDO AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES::

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TITLE:

COVID-19 A NEW PANDEMIC

AUTHORS:

Dr. Umar Badshah and Dr. Salman Khan

ABSTRACT:

On 11 march WHO called covid-19 a pandemic because, the disease first reported in wuhan china was now spreading to many countries of the world. A pneumonia like disease first reported in December 2019 in wuhan province in china later on investigated and called as covid-19 because the causative organism is a novel corona virus having similarities with SARS-coV AND MERS-coV, till now (16th march 2020) WHO reported 164837 confirmed cases in 146 countries and 6470 deaths from COVID-19. In this mini review we are discussing what we know till now, a brief introduction of this novel corona virus and the diseas(COVID-19) caused by this virus,its general features,its genomic structure, mode of transmission, clinical features,prevention and treatment .