World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

A commentary on “World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)”

“…The authors have summarised many issues concerning the COVID-19 outbreak including the clinical presentation, epidemiology, treatment, prognosis, prevalence, prevention and response to the outbreak. More importantly, while highlighting lessons learned, they have highlighted a number of important issues particularly delayed release of information about the COVID-19 infection, slowness in preventative measures such as quarantine and travel restrictions to contain the outbreak as well as measures to stop spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 [1].…”

The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A review

“…Sohrabi et al highlighted the extent of the outbreak with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the COVID-19 outbreak as a global emergency on 30th January 2020. (3) In a response to 'flatten the curve' (4), governments have enforced border shutdowns, travel restrictions and quarantine (5,6) in countries which constitute the world's largest economies, sparking fears of an impending economic crisis and recession. (7) In an attempt to understand the turmoil effect on the economy, we summarize the effect of COVID-19 on individual aspects of the world economy, focusing on primary sectors which include industries involved in the extraction of raw materials, secondary sectors involved in the production of finished products and tertiary sectors to include all service provision industries.…”

Evidence based management guideline for the COVID-19 pandemic - Review article

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), initially named novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, is a single-stranded RNA virus which forms one of the seven coronaviridae -229E, OC43, NL63, HKU1, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV))(1) -now known to infect humans. It is the virus responsible for causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a type of lower respiratory tract infection with the potential to cause severe and possibly fatal atypical novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)infected pneumonia (NCIP) in humans (2)(3)(4)).…”