Covid-19 and SARS

Coronaviruses are a broad group of viruses that infect a wide range of animals, as well as people, and can cause mild to severe respiratory illnesses. Two highly pathogenic coronaviruses with zoonotic origin, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), respectively, emerged in humans and caused fatal respiratory illness in 2002 and 2012, bringing emerging coronaviruses into the twenty-first century as a new public health concern. SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus, was identified as the source of a viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. The disease, which was later dubbed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), quickly spread over the world.

• Animal Host and Spill Over
• Clinical and Epidemiological Features
• Diagnosis and Treatments
• Emergence and Spread
• Future Perspectives
• Genomics, Phylogeny and Taxonomy
• Mutants and Variants
• Receptor Use and Pathogenesis
• Therapeutic Opportunities
• Vaccine and Antivirals Development