Genet Mol Biol . SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A perspective from environmental virology

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Genet Mol Biol


. 2021 Mar 8;44(1 Suppl 1):e20200228.
doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0228. eCollection 2021.
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A perspective from environmental virology


Meriane Demoliner ^{1 2} , Juliana Schons Gularte ^{1 2} , Viviane Girardi ¹ , Paula Rodrigues de Almeida ^{1 2} , Matheus Nunes Weber ^{1 3} , Ana Karolina Antunes Eisen ^{1 3} , Juliane Deise Fleck ^{1 2 3} , Fernando Rosado Spilki ^{1 2 3}



Affiliations

• PMID: 33710254
• DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0228

Abstract

December 2019 marked the beginning of the current Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19). Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the causative agent of a viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The alarming spread levels and clinical severity elevated the status of COVID-19 to the global pandemic by the World Health Organization. In 6 months, more than 25 million cases of infected people and more than 890,000 deaths by COVID-19 had been reported worldwide. The main goal of this review is to shed light upon the current COVID-19 epidemic situation in Brazil with a health approach highlighting some unique environmental, animal and epidemiological aspects.