COVID-19, severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) being causative agent of the
major outbreak of respiratory infection with a very low
mortality rate. In this review article, we discuss here the
basic virus of SARS- CoV-2, including the genome and
its proximal origin, the specific mutations, the global
variants, its adverse epidemiology, various therapies and
immunization against the SARS-CoV-2
Keywords : SARS-CoV-2, GLOBAL VARIANTS OF CORONAVIRUS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, IMMUNIZATION, MUTATIONS, VARIANTS, VACCINE, MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES, SARS, MERS.