| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T22 |
0-111 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Coronaviruses are enveloped positive-sense single stranded RNA viruses that belong to the family coronaviridae. |
| T23 |
112-210 |
Sentence |
denotes |
They usually infect birds and mammals and cause mild respiratory diseases (Kahn & McIntosh, 2005). |
| T24 |
211-408 |
Sentence |
denotes |
However, in the recent past, these viruses have caused lethal endemics such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) endemics (Kahn & McIntosh, 2005). |
| T25 |
409-537 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In December 2019, Wuhan city in China became the centre of a surge in cases of pneumonia by an unknown cause (Zhu et al., 2020). |
| T26 |
538-813 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A novel corona virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was isolated from these pneumonia patients in January 2020 and the disease was called the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization in February, 2020 (Gorbalenya et. al, 2020; Jiang et al., 2020; Who, 2020). |
| T27 |
814-1025 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Even though the epidemic may have started from a zoonotic transmission in a seafood market, that also sold wild animals, it became clear that this disease was transmitted from person to person (Li et al., 2020). |
| T28 |
1026-1262 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The clinical characteristics of this disease are broad, constituting asymptomatic infections, mild respiratory disease, severe pneumonia with respiratory failure and even death (Chen et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020). |
| T29 |
1263-1506 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant challenge to global public health (Phelan et al., 2020), appealing for the development of safe and successful prophylactics and therapies against infection of its causative agent, the SARS-CoV-2 virus. |
