GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus has become a great concern and challenge to lovers of good health globally. As it is well known, coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which may cause disease in animals or humans. They usually cause a respiratory infection ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The Coronavirus Study Group later renamed coronavirus as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and World Health Organization as well named the disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The most common symptoms of COVID-19 include: fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat, nausea or vomiting, conjunctivitis, etc. It modes of transmission includes, contact, droplet, airborne, fomite, fecal-oral, bloodborne, mother-to-child, and animal-to-human transmission. Some of it preventive measures are: washing of hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water or use of alcohol based hand sanitizer, maintain social distancing, avoiding large events and mass gatherings, etc. The paper concluded that COVID-19 has spread to almost all countries in the world and transmitted rapidly among humans. It speeds of spread and the severity of symptoms differs from any other infectious diseases. One of the recommendations was that government and health authorities should plan and supply resources efficiently for effective management of covid-19 pandemic.