Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and its potential G.I. manifestation: A review.

Abstract

The outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, Chinese Hubei City (COV-2) was also known as COVID-19 and has spread to more than 213 countries, zones or territories worldwide, and is an emergency of international public health with no antiviral drugs or vaccines; and, also, the presencouragement of the disease has become a global public health emergency. This novel coronavirus is now the seventh member of the coronaviridae family, known for infecting humans and showing evidence of causing gastric symptoms, and has the potential to be transmitted through the fecal-oral route according to a new report published online by physicians at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Gastroenterology. 2020 March 3. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro. 2020.02.054). Here we identify the efforts to compile and disseminate the COVID-19 epidemiological information on Its potential G.I. Demonstration of news media and social networks, and few newspapers recently published. Physicians should know, how GI manifestation discussed in different publications to suspect CORONA virus infection in that patients who does not have any upper and lower respiratory tract symptom and intervein to discuss the disease severity and duration. It will increase the threshold of suspicion of physician toward Covid-19 disease.