COVID 19; A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The novel corona virus disease started  at Wuhan  in Hubei province of China as pneumonia of unknown origin  and it was found that  the causative organism of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19) was Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus –type 2 (SARS-CoV-2).  Healthcare systems all over the world nearly collapsed due to unprecedented spread of the virus and the disease, COVID-19 was notified as a pandemic by WHO on March 11,2020.1,2  Until October 2020 more than 37 million cases and more than one million deaths have been reported worldwide from this highly contagious disease.