Background:
COVID-19 is a new, health-threatening infectious disease in the world in 2020, caused novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. As of July 13, 2020, 4,881,579 active cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed and 571,080 deaths
globally. In India, 301,850 active cases and 23,187 deaths have been reported. To date, there is no effective treatment made
available against the deadly virus SARS-CoV-2. The drug manufacturers, institutional laboratories, and other organizations
start developing vaccines to combat the COVID-19 infection.
Methods:
Science Direct, Elsevier, Pub med, Scopus, and Nature databases were referred to know the current scenario of
disease. Moreover, the recent data has also been obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO), Centre of Disease
Control (CDCs), case studies, newspaper, and worldometer reports. Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine, Clinicaltrials.gov, US National Library of Medicine, has also been accessed to get the latest information
about ongoing clinical trials.
Result:
The primary source of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is connected to the Hunan seafood and live animal market in Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China. Like; SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 is also a zoonotic virus affecting the
lower respiratory tract in humans. The pathogenesis of COVID-19 involves attachment of its Spike (S) protein to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor in the lower respiratory tract in humans. The most common symptoms of
COVID-19 are fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue, headache, myalgia, septic shock, and breathlessness. Few patients with
COVID-19 infection experience diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Currently, FDA approved drugs being used to treat
COVID-19.
Conclusion:
This review article presents the importance of traditional Indian herbs recommended by AYUSH as precautionary
and curative measures of COVID-19 until vaccines and drugs are made available. Moreover, this article discussed the origin,
symptoms, mode of transmission, management, and diagnostics techniques for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.