The Novel Coronavirus Outbreak - A Global Threat

The 2019 Novel Corona virus infection (COVID 19) is an ongoing public health emergency of international significance. The novel COVID-19 coronavirus Initially observed in the Wuhan province. Following reports of patients with unexplained pneumonia at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan,China, now fastly spreading around the world. There are significant knowledge gaps in the epidemiology, transmission dynamics, investigation tools and management. In this article, we review the availableevidence about this disease. As this pandemic is very new and very less scientific material is availableon the topic. The causative agent was identified as coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and the 2019 novel coronavirus disease was named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization.