The world is witnessing an eminence condition which had never been encounter so far, since last century with the advent of the technology and advancement, it was barely rare to see such pandemic. It has been a new, unique and challenging condition for the whole world including Science. China being the technology king and one of the developed countries, had combat it with grace and courage. The registered cases in China are 81,177 with 3,277 mortality rate is 4.03. Italy has been affected the second most country with registered cases of 63,927 with 6,077 mortality rate is 9.05. Spain being the third country with high mortality rate is 6.08 with registered cases 39,637 with 2,696 deaths. Iran has hard hit with deaths of 1,934 out of 24,811 confirmed cases and mortality rate is 7.79. The overall global count for the cases is 393,354 with 17,164 death tolls [1]. The overall mortality rate is 4.36 but all of these are developed and highly technologically advanced countries.

References

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Citation: Afsheen Arif. “COVID 19, the Unseen Battle: Are we Ready for it". Acta Scientific Microbiology 3.5 (2020): 26-27.

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