Structure, Life Cycle and Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS-COV-2

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Biology - Virology, , course: Medical laboratory sciences, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the Structure, Life Cycle and Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS-COV-2.

A serious public health concern of current time is the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID19) which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. Its causative agent is a virus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome ¿ corona virus 2 (SARS- COV-2) which the whole world is grappling with currently. The virus is suspected to have originated in Wuhan a seafood and wet animal wholesale market, Hebei province in the people¿s republic of China in 2019, It first emerged in southern China in 2002. The disease has spread to other parts of the world.