Coronavirus illness, also known as COVID-19, is an illness caused by a new coronavirus now referred to as severe acute respirational syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was first identified in an outbreak of respiratory cases in Wuhan City, China. Most of the people who initially suffered from the illness in Wuhan had visited the Huanan Seafood market and as a result, the virus is perceived to have a zoonotic cause [1]. Coronavirus was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019. WHO, then declared the coronavirus pandemic an international medical emergency on January 30th 2020. Currently, the total coronavirus cases are more than 11.6 million with 537,000 deaths and 6.27 million recoveries [2]. In the United States, there are more than 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 where 132,000+ victims have died from this virus while 901,000 others have fully recovered.

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Citation: Shaleen Sunesara and Salim Surani. “Sleep Disturbances in Era of COVID-19 Pandemic".Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.9 (2020): 01-03.

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