Causes and Risk Factors of COVID-19

  • Coronavirus Covid 19
    Covid 19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can trigger a respiratory tract infection. It is a type of coronavirus that was identified in December 2019. It spreads through person to person contact and droplets.  It is a highly infectious virus that is impacting millions of people around the world and has been termed as a global pandemic  
Submitted by Dr S. Patel on 6 September 2020

COVID-19 is an infectious disease causes by a virus called Sars Cov-2. SARS-CoV-2 is a member of the Betacoronavirus genus, one of the genera of the Coronaviridae family of viruse from the Coronavirus family. This a zoonotic virus meaning it is transmitted from animals to humans; transmission now is mainly inter-human.

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