DIVULGING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COVID-19

Patients with initial diagnosis of pneumonia and having symptoms of dry cough, dyspnea, fever and bilateral lung infiltrates on imaging admitted to hospitals in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China. These patients were found infected with a noble infectious corona virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome Corona Virus) and the disease was termed as COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease-2019). At present, COVID-19 became pandemic for the whole world as almost 184,263 people including male, female, children and old age have lost their till 23 April, 2020. In the absence of proper medicine or vaccine, prevention from the disease is the only effective means to stop transmission of disease in the community and to save lives. Transmission of disease may be symptomatic, pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic through infectious droplets, direct contact or contract with contaminated surfaces. People belongs to the age more than 60 years or with underlying serious medical conditions are at greatest risk to be get infected and lose their lives.