The Novel Virus: Covid-19

• Published in: ECS transactions Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 17371 - 17380
• Main Authors: Wagh, Pankaj Wagh, Mathankar, Himani Sunil, Kumbhalkar, Suraj, Rangari, Ankit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Electrochemical Society, Inc 24.04.2022
• ISSN: 1938-5862; 1938-6737
• DOI: 10.1149/10701.17371ecst

In December 2019, a very fatal and highly communicable viral disease emerged in Wuhan city of China, and within a spam of few days it was spread globally and become a global threat, hence it is termed as a pandemic situation in certain place. This viral infection is termed as Covid- 19 or the novel corona virus. It was named ‘corona virus’ because it is genetically related to SARS virus, because of which it is also called as SARS COV-2. After the analysis and study of this virus, it was considered to be originated from bats, because SARS COV-2 is phylogenetically related to bat virus. Bats is considered as primary spreader of this virus, but the source of transmission of the virus in humans is unknown . The mode of the transmission of this disease by the respiratory droplets which contaminated to surface. Normally this disease shows some minor symptoms like fever, fatigue, dyspnea, cough etc, but in case of improper precautionary measures it may become fatal to health. This diseases may turn deadly for the people with comorbidities and may cause other gives diseases like the pneumonia, aacute respiratory diseases syndromie and therefore affects on ability of person to breathe which leads the patients to being put on Ventilators. The incubation period of this diseases range from 5-14 days or more. T