Severe acute respiratory virus syndrome causing virus, coronavirus 2019 (SARS CoV-2), has caused unprecedented health and economic crisis worldwide. Coronavirus disease (COVDO-19), has caused more death in the USA in the last hundred days, than the wars that the US has fought in this century. It has exceeded, the annual death records of last several decades, by the influenza virus. The genome size of this virus ranges between 27 and 34 kilobases, larger than most other RNA viruses.

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Citation: Gundu HR Rao. “COVID-19; Pharmacological Approaches for Infection Prevention: Old and the New".Acta Scientific Pharmacology 1.8 (2020): 33-37.

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