Adekunle Sanyaolu, Chuku Okorie, Zaheeda Hosein, Risha Patidar, Priyank Desai, Stephanie Prakash, Urooj Jaferi, Jasmine Mangat, Aleksandra Marinkovic
A novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China in December 2019. This cluster quickly spread across the globe and led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) a pandemic on March 11, 2020. It's sudden emergence, ceaseless human-to-human transmission, and rapid spread has led to continuous pandemicity. As of June 9, 2020, there were 7 039 918 confirmed cases and 404 396 deaths globally. The rate of spread of COVID-19 is affected through respiratory droplets, most commonly when infected individuals cough or talk...
2021: Infectious Diseases