![]() ![]() However, it will be more catastrophic for low and middle-income countries because of very poor health care system, high illiteracy and low awareness of the disease and its prevention, lack of skilled health personnel, scarce Intensive Care Unit, a limited number of mechanical ventilators and prevalence of co-morbidities/infection along with malnutrition. The challenge of COVID-19 is very high globally due to a lack of proven treatment and the complexity of its transmission. It is estimated that the number even may be very high because the diagnosis is limited only in the capital. ![]() The current report in Ethiopia is very small which is 2500 confirmed cases and 27 deaths but there are many cases in short periods which is more than150 cases per day. The number of laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths in the African region was the lowest for the last couple of months but the rate of spreading in this region is increasing at an alarming rate and expected to be very high in the next couple of months if it continues as this rate. The total number of confirmed cases and death in the Eastern Mediterranean region accounted for approximately 660, 000, and 15,000 respectively. The European region accounted for the second-highest confirmed cases and death which were more than 2 million confirmed cases and 183 thousand deaths. ![]() The American region accounted for the highest number of cases and deaths which was more than 3 million and 200,000 respectively. Globally, More than 5 million confirmed cases and 400, 000 deaths were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) as of J. The WHO has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as a global pandemic on Ma. The World Health Organization (WHO) is named the current virus as severe acute respiratory distress COV-2 which causes coronaviruses disease 2019 (COVID-19). The clinical manifestation of the current coronavirus infection is similar to Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) outbreak that occurred in the Guangdong Province of China by the year 2002–2003 and another novel human coronavirus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (MERS-CoV) which was identified in the Middle East and other Arabian regions in 2012. The Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, Hubei province of China in December 2019 by the Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention from the throat swab of a patient and the virus is named severe acute respiratory distress COV-2 by WHO which causes Coronaviruses disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the late stages of the infection, the patient may die due to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The infection mainly affects the respiratory system and manifested with fever, dry cough, and difficulty breathing. The Coronavirus belongs to large groups of viruses that cause serious health problems affecting the respiratory, gastrointestinal, liver, and central nervous system of humans, livestock, Bats, mice, and other wild animals. ![]()
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