The coronavirus or COVID-19 epidemic shows no signs of abating. Latest reports show that the death toll has breached 2000 and the number of confirmed cases rose to more than 75000. Of these fiver deaths were outside China. This disease has also claimed the life of the director of a hospital in the city of Wuhan. He was 51. This disease has also infected many health workers who are trying hard to maintain services in China in the face of this outbreak. Coronavirus fatality rate is 2 per cent of infected patients Many studies since the outbreak have shown that