What is Coronavirus

What is Coronavirus?

Coronavirus is a large group of viru

ses that can infect mammals including humans. They can cause various medical conditions in an infected body, such as fever, cold, cough, and inflammation of bronchitis tubes in the lungs.

Coronavirus form a subfamily of viruses known as Orthocoronavirinae that is a part of a large family known as Coronaviridae. The genome (genetic material) of coronavirus is very large (around 34,000 base pairs) as 

Types of Coronavirus

There are various types of coronavirus but the most important types that have spread to large regions are:

1. Severe Acute Respiratory SARS-CoV outbreak occurred in the year 2003 primarily in Asia. This is was a minor outbreak and has infected about 8,000 people worldwide. In this infection, the total death was nearly 800.
2. Middle East Respiratory – The first officially registered case of MERS-CoV occurred in September 2012. It was initially named as novel coronavirus 2012, but WHO later changed its name to MERS-CoV. MERS-CoV was also a minor outbreak and up to 2019, there were only 2,468 registered cases. However, its mortality rate was very high and has reached 34%. That means, out of 100 infected people, 34 people were dying due to the infection.
3. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – There are several names given to COVID-19, some of them are 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the highly spreading disease that has affected almost every nation of the world and has started from Wuhan, China. This disease is currently an ongoing pandemic so its mortality rate and cure are yet to be determined.