Covid-19 and Older Persons

Abstract

The coronavirus is a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2. The resultant coronavirus disease is popularly called COVID-19. Until February 2020, few nations outside China reported COVID-19 cases (1). In March 2020, based on confirmed cases, the virus began spreading rapidly in South Korea, Italy, Spain and other European countries, and in the third week of March to the United States [1, 2]. On 11 March WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As of 5 October there are more than 36 million confirmed cases, more than one million deaths and nearly 27 million recovered [3]. The latest data also show that COVID-19 cases rates are increasing more rapidly in poor and developing countries than in wealthier and more developed nations [3, 4].