SARS-CoV-2: The Path of Prevention and Control

Amal A Mohamed; Nouran Mohamed; Seham Mohamoud; Fawkia E Zahran; Rania Abdelmonem Khattab; Dalia Ali El-Damasy; Eman Alsayed; Sherief Abd-Elsalam

doi:10.2174/1871526520666200520112848

SARS-CoV-2: The Path of Prevention and Control

Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2021;21(3):358-362. doi: 10.2174/1871526520666200520112848.

Authors

Amal A Mohamed¹, Nouran Mohamed², Seham Mohamoud³, Fawkia E Zahran⁴, Rania Abdelmonem Khattab⁵, Dalia Ali El-Damasy⁶, Eman Alsayed⁷, Sherief Abd-Elsalam⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, National Hepatology Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
² Faculty of Biotechnology, Misr University for Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Tropical Medicine Department, Elsahel Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
⁴ Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Girls), Al -Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Egyptian Russian University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁷ Department of Clinical Pathology, Minia University Hospital, Minia, Egypt.
⁸ Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

PMID: 32433010
DOI: 10.2174/1871526520666200520112848

Abstract

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) continues to expand worldwide. Although the number of cases and the death rate among children and adolescents are reported to be low compared to adults, limited data have been reported. We urgently need to find the treatment and vaccine to stop the epidemic. Vaccine development is in progress, but any approved and effective vaccine for COVID-19 will take at least 12 to 18 months. The World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have issued instructions and strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreak to the general public, physicians, travelers and injured patients to follow so that the transmission to a healthy population can be prevented. In this review, we summarize demographic data, clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes and finally prevention and control strategies for this serious pandemic.

Keywords: Coronavirus; SARS; epidemic; pandemic; vaccine; viruses.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / prevention & control
Humans
Pandemics*