Understanding the Mosaic of COVID-19: A Review of the Ongoing Crisis

Madeeha Subhan Waleed; Waleed Sadiq; Muneeba Azmat

doi:10.7759/cureus.7366

Understanding the Mosaic of COVID-19: A Review of the Ongoing Crisis

Cureus. 2020 Mar 22;12(3):e7366. doi: 10.7759/cureus.7366.

Authors

Madeeha Subhan Waleed¹, Waleed Sadiq², Muneeba Azmat³

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine, Capital Hospital, Islamabad, PAK.
² Internal Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, New York, USA.
³ Internal Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Memorial Hospital, Lahore, PAK.

Abstract

In late 2019, a queer type of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan city in the central part of China. On investigation, it was found to be caused by the coronavirus. Human coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s. There are a total of seven types of coronaviruses that infect humans: 229E and NL63 are the alpha coronaviruses; OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV are beta coronaviruses, and SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus. COVID-19 surfaced in China at the culmination of the year 2019. The pandemic then fanned out rapidly, involving Italy, Japan, South Korea, Iran, and the rest of the world.

Keywords: corona virus; coronavirus; covid-19; incubation; pandemic; pneumonia; wuhan coronavirus.

Publication types

Review