Challenges and opportunities brought by COVID-19: Understanding and prevention of COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province at the end of December 2019. The number of confirmed cases is increasing every day, causing more deaths than the SARS outbreak in China from 2002 to 2003. COVID-19 has become a public health emergency of global concern, and all governments and medical institutions are on high alert. Therefore, we summarize the genomics, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and other aspects of COVID-19 based on the currently available data.