Authors:

Vikram Raval, Prashant Arya, Rinkal Gohil, Aanal Patani, Kalpesh Mahla, Jaimin Pandya, Rakeshkumar Panchal, Kiransinh Rajput, Rushikesh Joshi

Abstract:

The COVID-19 become ‘the first-worst pandemic’ of 21^st century. The causative agent SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus and is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets. At the end of year 2020, COVID-19 has infected 84,532,824 people and carried out 1,845,597 deaths across the globe. Here, the epidemiology of COVID-19 in the worst affected twenty countries and the world up to December 2020 is reviewed. The distribution of COVID-19 across the globe observed about 78.70% of reported positive cases and 81.63% of the reported deaths in twenty countries viz. USA, India, Brazil, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Columbia, Argentina, Mexico Turkey, Poland, Iran, South Africa, Ukraine, Peru, Indonesia and Belgium. The highest COVID-19 cases were observed in the USA (20,640,214) with 6,235.66 cases per lakh people and this is far ahead than the world average of 2,910 cases per lakh people. The highest 351,590 number of deaths occurred in the USA but the highest deaths per lakh people is observed in Belgium (172.4) which is very higher than the world average (13.9). In the starting of year 2020, the case fatality rate was 2.17 % in January month, the highest 8.12 % in April and controlled to 1.78 % in December. The case fatality rate of Mexico (8.8 %) is very high compared to the world average (2.2 %). With the collective efforts of scientists and the governments, eight vaccines are in market and vaccination is in progress to combat the worst pandemic Covid-19.   

Keywords:

SARS CoV-2, COVID-19, pandemic, epidemiology, Death rate, Vaccine

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.2, June 2021