The diameter of coronavirus ranges from 60 to 140 nm with club-shaped spikes forming a crown-like structure on its surface under an electron microscope, hence the name given coronavirus (Richman et al. The whole-genome level of coronavirus is 96% match with a bat coronavirus (Zhou et al. The coronavirus is an envelope positive sense single-stranded RNA virus whose genome is mainly comprised of nearly 30,000 nucleotides with genome size varied in between 26 and 36 kb, and its replication and transcription depend on the replicase gene which encodes two overlapping polyproteins, pp1a and pp1ab (Zhou et al. SARS-CoV-2, which is also named as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a novel and highly contagion virus that belongs to the family of “Nidovirus” which includes “Roiniviridae”, “Artieviridae” and “Coronavirdae” family, causing respiratory illness in humans with symptoms such as common cold and fever to more acute diseases like and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (De Wit et al. On 30 January 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (WHO 2020). The GOI is following its proactive and preemptive approach for management, prevention and containment of COVID-19 in collaboration with the WHO. The study also enlightens the preventive and stringent measures taken by India to combat the COVID-19 situation along with the future prospects. With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), the total recoveries have crossed the 1.8 million mark with a recovery rate of more than 70% and case fatality rate of 1.94% which is maintained below the global average and is on a continuous positive slide. As of August 16, the total number of confirmed cases in India crossed 2.5 million marks with over 50,000 causalities. The study uses exploratory data analysis to describe the current situation of COVID-19 cases in India till 16 August 2020, with the help of data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (GOI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). In this paper, we have discussed the trend and spread of COVID-19 spread in India with time, history of initial confirmed cases, the impact of phased manner lockdown, age- and gender-wise trend of cases and comparison of cases with the other most affected countries. Owing to the widespread transmission, high population density, high testing capacity and ineffective treatment, a continuous rise in cases was observed due to the pandemic in India. In India, the outspread of the pandemic was observed on 3 March 2020, and after that exponential growth in the cases was observed in the country. The outbreak of novel and recent coronavirus disease 2019, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has made an emergency throughout the world.
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