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SPECIAL ISSUE: COVID-19: A HOLISTIC INSIGHT

Covid-19 infection, a new Corona Virus infection which started as a new viral infection in the Wuhan fish market, China, has now spread to all over the world turning out to be a really devastating pandemic, affecting 185 countries. The very 1st patient was a 57 year old woman, WeiGushiyan, who was selling fish in the market. It was reported on 27 December 2019. She took treatment for 1 month and is now cured. This was reported by Wall Street Journal under the title “Patient Zero”. At first this new virus was named n-CoV-2019 (novel-CoV-2019). Later on the name was changed to Covid-19. Initially this new epidemic was confined to China only thereafter it spread to Italy. There are lot of trade connections between China and Italy and as such lots of people travel from China to Italy and also from Italy to China. This is the cause of spread of infection from China to Italy. From Italy Covid-19 infections spread to United Kingdom and later on to France then Russia was also affected. Later the infection spread to the North and South American Continents. Among all USA and Brazil is the most affected countries. At the beginning of the corona virus infection the Asian and African countries were comparatively free of the pandemic but now the picture has changed entirely and now almost all continents are involved. Apart from China, other Asian countries involved are India, Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, etc. Many African countries like Nigeria and Ethiopia are also affected.