The world is experiencing the outbreak of highly infectious RNA virus named COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 since December last year. As on 28 May 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 5,556,679 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 351,866 deaths worldwide. Clinicians and scientists now know much about the characteristics of the virus and its effect on human health which is similar to SARC-CoV but with more serious outcomes.

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Citation: Kanchan Kumari and Sandip K Mishra. “Artemisinin and its Derivatives as Repurposing Drug against COVID-19”.Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 4.7 (2020): 21-23.

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