The coronavirus or the COVID-19, is largely believed to have originated from a wet market in China’s Wuhan province.
The World Health Organisation, on Wednesday while marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk everywhere, not just in rich nations.
A WHO led international team of experts is due to visit China in the first week of January 2021, to investigate the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in the central city of Wuhan in December 2019. More than 81.84 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,788,443 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
The coronavirus or the COVID-19, is largely believed to have originated from a wet market in China’s Wuhan province. This turned into a pandemic within weeks as rapid virus transmission occurred across the world. The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged as a new strain in the large family of coronaviruses (CoV) which was previously not identified in humans.
The epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak shifted from China to Italy as the European nation started witnessing a relatively higher mortality rate.
The virus soon spiralled out in all the major European nations, including France and Germany, prompting countries around the world to announce strict lockdowns. The United States has remained the worst-hit nation in terms of the number of Covid-19 cases and related deaths.
India is a distant second with over 10 million cases, followed by Brazil, Russia, and France. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, nearly 79 million Covid-19 cases and more than 1.7 million related deaths have been recorded across the globe so far.
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