The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) flare up from Wuhan city of China and spread rapidly. World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a public health emergency. The outbreak was thought to be started from a livestock market.[1] Within a short duration, the coronavirus was rapidly spread in other parts of China. Modern transport methods made it a pandemic. More than 1.4 million people were affected in the first week of April 2020, from more than 200 countries.[2] On January 30, 2020, the COVID 19 outbreak as the sixth public health emergency declared by WHO.[3] SARS-COV and MERS-COV were previously declared as outbreaks before COVID-19.[4] During the third spike of COVID-19, 1,093,449 confirmed WHO reported cases with 58,720 mortalities. On February 19, 2020, Iran faced the first two coronavirus infected persons.
Similarly, Spain, France, and Italy are at the peak of pandemic outside of China now. Fortunately, China has overcome the swiftly spreading outbreak. Since mid-March, the number of cases has been dropped. In other countries, especially the United States of America and Europe, the pandemic is at the top. Unexpected the highest positive cases in the USA, followed by Italy and Spain currently reported.[5] Only a 2% mortality rate was recorded in China.[6] In other parts of the world, people with a weak immune system due to comorbidities like carcinoma, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and the diabetes fatality rate are varied and high by the age difference. More new cases and deaths are expected in the USA and Europe.
On February 11, 2020, WHO named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS Cov-2) resembled the SARS-COV of 2003.[6] In 1966 First human coronavirus was identified.[7]In 2002 the first was SARS-COV (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus), and the other is MERS-COV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), infected many countries in the world were the other two types of virus. An Outbreak of SARS-COV was spread in 37 countries and infected 8000 people. MERS-COV infected 2494 people in 27 countries. The total number of deaths was 1658 worldwide due to these two viruses that lead towards pneumonia.[8] On February 26, 2020, the Ministry of Health reported the first case of COVID-19 in Karachi while the Federal Ministry of Health reported another confirmed case in Islamabad.[9] Within a few days, confirmed cases were 25 out of 471 suspected cases in Sindh. These positive cases had a traveling history from China, Iran, London, and Syria. The situation is the worst, and positive cases are increasing daily. Different strategies have been planned by Pakistan’s government, such as quarantine centers with every city testing laboratories, public awareness, lockdown, and funding against the COVID-19 outbreak.