author(s)
Salome Jadhav and Prafullata Natekar

abstract
According to WHO, a pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019.The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020.On 11 February 2020, WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease: COVID-19.