Background:
Corona virus disease (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly at an unprecedented scale across continents
and has emerged as the single biggest risk the world has faced in modern times. Some scientists are comparing it to Spanish
flu that created havoc around a century ago. The fear of death by COVID-19 looms large at the world today. The disease has
reached devastating proportions since its first reports in December 2019. Doctors are having a difficult time dealing with
this challenge and the microbiologists are having sleepless nights to bring about an effective vaccine for this disease.
Methods:
A number of research and review articles have been exhaustively reviewed. The collected data was meticulously
analysed and documented.
Conclusion:
This paper reviews the different types of corona viruses, the structure of SARS-CoV-2 responsible for COVID19, its transmission, virulence. Further, the article discusses the diagnosis, signs and symptoms like fever, breathlessness,
cough, potential loss of taste or smell, sneezing, runny nose, fatigue, headache, sore throat and different treatment approaches including drug repurposing being tried by doctors around the globe that may come handy in the management of disease
symptoms. The article describes the use of remdesivir, ribavarin, lopinavir, favipiravir, hydoxychloroquine, chloroquine, tocilizumab among others in treating COVID-19.
Targeted holistic review of patients’ medicines is well overdue
