{"id":8205,"date":"2020-02-12T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delveinsight.com\/blog\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2022-08-08T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T09:01:15","slug":"coronavirus-2019-ncov-is-now-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delveinsight.com\/blog\/coronavirus-2019-ncov-is-now-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"The epidemic now has a name: COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amid the breakout in Wuhan, China, the novel coronavirus has managed to invade the other countries across the globe. Till now, almost 25 countries including several Asian, northern American, Australia and European countries, have reported confirmed cases of coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the infected cases totalling to 45,168, and the deaths around 1,115- surpassing the death rate reported at the time of Severe acute respiratory syndrome <\/a>(SARS)- <\/strong>the novel Coronavirus has now come to know as Coronavirus disease<\/a> 2019 (COVID- 19). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronaviruses are basically transmitted between people and animals. Till now no confirmed sources of spread and therapy have been developed to contain its spread, which has raised severe public health concern. As of now the only way to cease its spread is to isolate the infected person, putting them in quarantine thus preventing the spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To tackle the outbreak situation and contain its spread, several researchers and pharma companies have joined the race to develop a standard therapy for the Coronavirus epidemic which is on the cusp of becoming pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therapies, which Pharma companies are reportedly working on, and have the potential to cure the coronavirus epidemic are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n