Abstract

COVID 19 AND EARACHE

*Dr. Mohammad Ali Abdullah Resin Alfarttoosi, Dr. Azad Abdulrahman Ridha Alkokachi and Dr. Shaima Abd Muhsin AL Haboobi

ABSTRACT

At the end of 2019, a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan (Hubei, China). A few weeks later, in January 2020, deep sequencing analysis from lower respiratory tract samples identified a novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as causative agent for that observed pneumonia cluster. On February 11th, 2020, theWorld Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, named the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 as ―COVID-19‖, and by March 11th, 2020 when the number of countries involved was 114, with more than 118,000 cases and over 4000 deaths, the WHO declared the pandemic status.

Keywords: .