Vol. 58 No. 3-4 (2020): SCHOOL SCIENCE
Articles

COVID-19: What Should We Know?

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  • Amit Kumar Dinda
Amit Kumar Dinda
ICMR Emeritus Scientist and Former Professor Department of Pathology All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi-110029

Published 2020-12-31

Keywords

  • fomite,
  • ACE2,
  • COVID-19,
  • SARS-CoV-2

How to Cite

Dinda, A. K. . (2020). COVID-19: What Should We Know?. SCHOOL SCIENCE, 58(3-4), p.4-10. http://14.139.250.109:8090/index.php/SS/article/view/2712

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) following its first outbreak in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread all over the globe as a pandemic with unprecedented morbidity and mortality. Majority of this explosive spread have occurred by human to human transmission through aerosol route with a minor element of transmission through contaminated surfaces. This brief review article describes in a simplified manner the basic understanding about the virus, the pathobiology of infection, modes of transmission and preventive measures to avoid the infection.

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