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Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China

Version 1 : Received: 18 February 2020 / Approved: 19 February 2020 / Online: 19 February 2020 (11:58:13 CET)

How to cite: Zhou, D.; Zhang, P.; Bao, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, N. Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints 2020, 2020020283. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1 Zhou, D.; Zhang, P.; Bao, C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, N. Emerging Understanding of Etiology and Epidemiology of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Wuhan, China. Preprints 2020, 2020020283. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0283.v1

Abstract

The latest emergence of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had caused an outbreak of respiratory virus infections in Wuhan, China, and other countries so that the world health organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 epidemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 31, 2020. At present, it is the fact that we have identified the bats as the host, the route of respiratory droplets, contact, and aerosol can accelerate the transmission from person to person. However, it is not well known about the intermediator and other approaches. Identifying and characterizing the origin and host(s) of COVID-19 can help us to evaluate the potential risk of COVID-19 for transmission among humans or cross-species.

Keywords

Etiology; Epidemiology; COVID-19; Wuhan

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Virology

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