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Author(s): Prashant Kantrao Vibhute, Satish Babulal Jadhav, Satish Ashruba Dake and Bhaskar Sadashiv Dawane*

DOI: 10.2174/2666796701999200826114852

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A Mini Review: Origin, Treatments, Preventions, Real Facts and Viability of the Recent Pandemic of Novel Coronavirus-2019

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Abstract

Background: Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has sent billions of people into lockdown. It has a negative impact on daily life, physical and mental health. Never before was seen such a type of pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. It increased anxiety in the community. Impacts of this disruption affect every sector such as health, finance, education, transport, agriculture, and economical growth of countries. Most of the countries experience insecurity in these sectors.

Objective: To reduce the spread of the novel Coronavirus-2019 and to bridge the knowledge gap of the research community, frontline health workers as well as those persons who are working in this regard to improve critical health challenges so that the community can plan effective prevention. In the present mini-review, we summarized the origin, route of transmission, current therapies of treatment, preventions, viability and real facts of fatal disease novel Coronavirus-2019 (2019-nCoV).

Result: Achieving division of a large population into small-small groups and take RT-PCR tests on a very large scale. It will help to identify and isolate an accurate infected person. Isolation of infected cases and quarantine reduce the transmissibility of COVID-19.

Conclusion: Knowledge about real-time evolution and transmission of the emerging pathogens helps to prevent its infection at all stages. To improve understanding of the risk, mechanism, and treatment in response to COVID-19 is required encouraging case studies, effective treatment therapies, drug discovery and developments. Make awareness in society about sanitation and avoid close contact to escape COVID-19 infection are the best ways of protection.

Keywords: Bat, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, preventions, SARS-CoV-2, transmission.

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