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Coronavirus:A Novel Threat and ICT-Based Mitigation


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1 Department of Computer Application, Sikkim University, Gangtok 737 102, India
2 Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata 741 249, India
 

Coronavirus, the deadly RNA virus causes severe respiratory illness in humans and sometimes results in death. In December 2019, an outbreak of this virus was reported from Wuhan, China, which has been named the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)1 . During the time of writing this letter, it has become an epidemic in China with more than 1000 lives lost and 40,000 cases detected. The rapid spread of this virus is not only a threat to China, but to the whole world. Recently, some cases have been reported from Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Germany, the United States and India2 . The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern3 .
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Partha Pratim Ray
Department of Computer Application, Sikkim University, Gangtok 737 102, India
Poulami Majumder
Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata 741 249, India

Abstract


Coronavirus, the deadly RNA virus causes severe respiratory illness in humans and sometimes results in death. In December 2019, an outbreak of this virus was reported from Wuhan, China, which has been named the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)1 . During the time of writing this letter, it has become an epidemic in China with more than 1000 lives lost and 40,000 cases detected. The rapid spread of this virus is not only a threat to China, but to the whole world. Recently, some cases have been reported from Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Germany, the United States and India2 . The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern3 .

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv118%2Fi8%2F1150-1151