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Coronavirus covid-2019: Is this really an invisible enemy or a warning to humanity?

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Submitted   Jul 2, 2020
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Issue    Vol 1 No 1 (2020)
DOI   10.25082/HE.2020.02.001

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Modeste Kameni Nematchoua corresponding author
Beneficiary of an AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Grant, Research Leaders Fellowships, AXA SA 25 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, France & LEMA, UEE, ArGEnCo Department, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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With more than 8 million confirmed cases, and more than four hundred and thirty thousand deaths declared to date worldwide, the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is recognized as one of the deadliest pandemics that the humanity has known in recent years. So far, although this disease has been declared as an invisible enemy by many scientists and politicians, its origin remains without explanation more reliable and reassuring by the scientific community. As a result, the following questions remain without explanation. Can this pandemic be considered a warning to humanity? When will the end of this pandemic come? Has it become a matter of industrial lobbies as said some people? The main purpose of this research is to analyse some research related to the recently published Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in order to offer some answers to these questions. It emerges from this analysis that the most reliable solution to overcome this pandemic is to disclose the results of the progress of this pandemic by the scientific, and to multiply public awareness campaigns.

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Nematchoua, M. (2020). Coronavirus covid-2019: Is this really an invisible enemy or a warning to humanity?. Health and Environment, 1(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.25082/HE.2020.02.001
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