COVID-19 RESEARCH

With the pandemic COVID-19 is raising worldwide, many research organisations have actively involved in  diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics of COVD-19. After the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) was declared by the WHO Director -General following the suggestion of Emergency Committee. World scientists on COVID-19 then met at World's Health Organization's Geneva headquarters on 12 February 2020 to discuss about the new virus and was agreed on critical research to curtail this outbreak. As part of WHO's response on this papandemic, the R&D Blueprint was activated to accelerate the research processes. Other organizations that are conducting the research are:

• BMJ
• Cambridge University Press
• Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
• Cochrane
• Elsevier
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• The Lancet
• LITCOVID: US National Library of Medicine
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Public Health England
• Springer Nature

Source : WHO Global Research on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov