Overview of dreadful consequences of SARS-CoV-2 invasion in Italy from March 2020 to March 2022

Abstract

At the end of December 2019, numerous people with pneumonia symptoms were admitted to the hospitals of Wuhan, Hubei region of China, and within a short period of time, it spread globally and became a pandemic (Liu et al. 2020). First, “Wuhan pneumonia” was coined to indicate the symptoms; soon after, it was discovered that the causative agent of the disease was “Coronavirus” which belongs to the “Coronaviridae” family and β coronavirus genus (Pal et al. 2020; Noor 2021; Noor and Maniha 2020). Subsequently, the name severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) took place (Pal et al. 2020). The World Health Organization (WHO) entitled this pandemic as “COVID-19” disease on March 11 2020, which consists of a genome sequence with an elevated degree of similarity with the earliest epidemic causative virus such as SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV (Noor 2021). To date (19 May 2022), the pandemic had devoured many lives, the number raised to 520,372,492 infected cases and a total of 6,270,232 deaths worldwide (WHO 2022).