ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Murugan N*, Jansi RS, Giridharan A and Saravana Kumar P
The pandemic spread of novel coronavirus, (SARS-CoV-2) causing CoronaVirus Infectious Diseases (COVID-19) emerged into a global threat for human life causing serious mortality rate and economic crunches worldwide. On April 25, 2020 at 2:00am Central European Summer Time (CEST), WHO reported a total of 2,804,796 confirmed Corona cases and 1, 93, 722 Corona deaths worldwide in 213 countries. In which USA tops 8, 607, 72 confirmed cases (44, 053 deaths) followed by Italy 1, 92, 994 (25, 969 deaths) and Spain 2, 19, 764 (22, 524 deaths). This study aims to compare the genomic nature of SARS-CoV-2 genome reported from Wuhan, China with two Indian isolate genome reported by ICMR-NIV, India. Further evolutionary relationship studies were performed with coronavirus infecting non-human species like bats, duck, and sparrow were compared with Indian isolates and available whole genome sequences of SARS-CoV2 with aid of MegaX. In addition, epidemiological reports on SARS-CoV2 among Worldwide and India centric data were compared from March 25, 2020 to April 25, 2020. The numbers of active cases were increased dramatically in 30 days period studied, highlighted in the current study.
Keywords: Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; World Health Organization (WHO); Pandemic; Genomics; Phylogeny
