Document Type : Editorial article
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Department of Microbiology/Virology, College of Medicine, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Anbar, Iraq
Abstract
Coronavirus interactive disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2(. It begins suddenly in December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, then spread in 213 countries with 4,818,296 confirmed cases, of the 316,925 dead with 6.68% case fatality rate) until the nineteenth of May 2020). It is characterized by a mild common cold-like illness, to severe viral pneumonia leading to the acute respiratory distress syndrome that is potentially fatal
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