Coronavirus: An Overview

Abstract

Coronaviruses also known as Wuhan coronavirus are the type of viruses that cause ailment in mammals, birds. The current outbreak strain of coronavirus 2019-nCoV is causing respiratory infections including common cold to severe pneumonia. In the cows and pigs, that virus causes diarrhea.in the chicken they cause upper respiratory ailments. There are no vaccines or drugs approved for the coronaviruses treatment, but some drug and herbal medicine also show the positive effect against the coronaviruses 2019Nov-Coronaviruses. Coronaviruses are founded in the family Coronaviridae and subfamily Orthocoronavarinae in the order Nidovirales. The term coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”, because the coronaviruses look like the crown. The first coronavirus was discovered in the 1960s and named Human coronavirus 229E and human corona virusOC43. Other members of these families have been identified, including SARS-Cov in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and 2019-nCoV in 2019 has founded recently in the Wuhan City of China. The World Health Organization announced that "COVID-19" will be the official name of the disease on 11 February 2020.