COVID-19 Pandemic: A hard lesson learnt

• Main Author: Mansimrat Paul Singh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Al Ameen Medical College 2021-07-01
• Series: Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences
• Subjects: covid-19; pandemic; hard lesson
• Online Access: http://ajms.alameenmedical.org/ArticlePDFs/2%20AJMS%20V14.N3.2021%20p%20178-180.pdf

In December 2019, World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) was responsible for the severe upper respiratory infection, spreading in a Wuhan province of China [1]. In the next few months it had spread across the globe. In March 2020, it was declared a pandemic by WHO [2]. It was about time when the disease would reach Indian subcontinent, due to lack of awareness among the people, would eventually spread to the masses. In the past, year 2002 and 2012 witnessed another similar disease with resembling pattern that had had spread in China and Middle east respectively. Namely, SARS and MERS-CoV, both family members of the coronavirus [3-4]. In the last two decades, these two viruses have caused documented epidemics with mortality rates of 9.5% and 34.4% [5]. CoVID -19 stands at the third position in mortality point of view. It has been proven that the proven fact that COVID-19 is having less mortality as compared to the former two but more contagious.