. 2020 Jun 17;27(3):e12621. doi: 10.1111/xen.12621

TABLE 1.

Facts on high pathogenic human CoVs

Virus	Time of circulation	Laboratory confirmed cases	Deaths	Case fatality rate%	Country distribution
SARS‐CoV ^a	2002‐2003	8096	774	9.6	26
MERS‐CoV ^b	2012‐ongoing	2494	853	35	27
SARS‐CoV‐2 ^c	2019‐ongoing	4 248 389	294 046	14.4	Global pandemic

Situation report 115, 14 May 2020.

^{^a}

Source: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/.

^{^b}

Source:https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers‐cov/en/

^{^c}

Source:https://www.who.int/docs/default‐source/coronaviruse/situation‐reports/20200512‐covid‐19‐sitrep‐113.pdf?sfvrsn=feac3b6d_2.

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