COVID-19 Crisis

ABSTRACT

Currently, the whole world is under a serious threat to public health by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which is believed to begin in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. As of 11 May 2020 more than 4 million cases of COVID‐19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), have been confirmed. SARS‐CoV‐2 is a highly pathogenic and transmissible coronavirus that primarily spreads through respiratory droplets and close contact. A growing body of clinical data suggests that a cytokine storm is associated with COVID‐19 severity and is also a crucial cause of death from COVID‐19. It becomes more disastrous when the viral epidemiology has been varied making the virulence trajectories of nascent coronaviruses difficult to envisage. More uncertainties of the disease will be revealed, and more response actions will be implemented. It is currently paid increasing attention to this crisis over the study period, and substantial efforts are being made to identify insufficiency, incongruency and supply chain issues all across the globe. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.