Documentaries on research of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) as of 11 March, 2020

ABSTRACT

The first pneumonia case with unknown etiology appeared in Wuhan on December 1, 2019, and the pathogen of which was identified as a new species of coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) was tentatively named the virus as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on January 31, 2020. Then the caused pneumonia was named as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) by National Health Commission on February 8, 2020, which was changed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) under agreed guidelines of WHO three days later on February 11, 2020. One same day, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses designated the 2019-nCoV as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (2019-nCoV). WHO characterizes COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. After the outbreak of COVID-19, researchers at home and abroad make great efforts in doing epidemiology investigation, establishing detection methods, improving clinical diagnosis and treatment plan, exploring pathogenesis and developing anti-viral drugs and vaccines, effectively preventing the spread of the domestic epidemic and winning time for controlling the epidemic outside China. Based on the axis of time, this documentary article records the important events in research progress of COVID-19 in genomics, virus origins, epidemiology, detection, pathogenesis, clinical diagnosis and treatment.