Tackling COVID-19 with Nanotechnology

Abstract

A new virus familiar yet very strange has griped almost all the countries of the world. It has spread its tentacles griping the richand poor alike. It does not discriminate between class, religion, race or gender. About four months have elapsed since it was first identified in the Wuhan [1,2] province of China and yet it spreads with an unimagined pace and an unabat9ed ferocity. It has been named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2) [1], coronaviruses belong to the family Coronaviridae, with protein coat and positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome, among the RNA viruses they are one of the largest ones in genome size. They infect both mammals and birds. The medical fraternity is still in doubt about its origin and cure. It has struck one of the most powerful nations of the world and rendered it helpless. People are left in utter confusion and various conspiracies theories - from attributing the origin of virus to labs to a desperate attempt by some nations to wage a biological war against the other - are making rounds on social media. A brief discussion below would better help understand the mechanism