Author/s Wu, Yi-Chia; Chen, Ching-Sunga; Chan, Yu-Jiun

The outbreak of COVID-19: An overview
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Journal Journal of the Chinese Medical Association:

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Publisher The Chinese Medical Association.

City of China
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Year of March 2020

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DOI 10.1097/JCMA.0000000000000270

URL https://journals.lww.com/jcma/fulltext/2020/03000/the_outbreak_of_covid_19_
_an_overview.3.aspx

This article will inform the readers about the ferocious virus and it is the NCOV or COVID-19.
The disease is officially named as Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19, by WHO on February
11, 2020). It contains information on where the first case of covid-19 was, and it was in Wuhan
china. The article shows what are the symptoms of covid-19, and also included the countries
severely affected by it including Philippines. It says here that the exact origin, location, and
natural reservoir of the 2019-nCoV remain unclear, although it is believed that the virus is
zoonotic, and bats may be the culprits. At the end of this article, they give tips how to prevent
covid-19 because at that this time there was still no effective drug against covid-19.