Focus on the current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Abstract

The coronavirus is typically associated with the common cold, as one of a variety of causative viral organisms.

However, the current outbreak of a novel coronavirus,¹ dubbed (2019-nCoV) began in Wuhan, China, on the 31st of December 2019, with a cluster of pneumonia cases. These cases were soon linked to a previously unknown virus that has since been identified as a novel coronavirus.