Abstract

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019 from Wuhan city of China. SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 is an enveloped RNA virus, from the genus Betacoronavirus. As of April 5th, 2020 more than 1,235,730 cases and 67,195 deaths have been reported globally. This review article discuss the latest updates and essential information about the COVID-19 outbreak including the current pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical interventions.

Keywords: COVID-19; World Health Organization (WHO); Betacoronavirus

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Citation

Citation: Mukesh M Mudgal and Mangesh M Mudgal. “Insight into the COVID-19 Outbreak: Current Intervention Strategies".Acta Scientific Pharmaceutical Sciences 4.6 (2020): 15-19.

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Copyright: © 2020 Mukesh M Mudgal and Mangesh M Mudgal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.