key: cord-0977777-y1btpdph authors: Chakraborty, Chiranjib; Sharma, Ashish Ranjan; Sharma, Garima; Bhattacharya, Manojit; Saha, Rudra P.; Lee, Sang-Soo title: Extensive Partnership, Collaboration, and Teamwork is Required to Stop the COVID-19 Outbreak date: 2020-05-30 journal: Arch Med Res DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2020.05.021 sha: 95092297d2c6f7b30da3d5e79b2d1800c52947fd doc_id: 977777 cord_uid: y1btpdph Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak is a disaster now throughout the world. To stop this outbreak, we appeal through the paper for extensive partnership, collaboration and teamwork among the all levels of workers such as scientist, doctors, medical professionals, social workers, policy makers, governments, pharmaceutical firms, funding aid agencies to stop the pandemic immediately. Scientists have proposed that SARS-CoV-2 may have transferred from bats to humans (8) . Bat meat may be the origin of this virus. Huanan wholesale seafood market, where the live animals are traded, including snakes, birds, marmots, and bats may be the point of origin of COVID-19. Conversely, human-to-human transmission of this virus is also critical (9) . However, the precise animal host of this virus is still a mystery and the mechanism by which the virus jumped from the animal to humans remains unclear. Therefore, biologists should collect the animal samples selectively for this research. To quickly identify the natural reservoirs the virus biologists should collaborate with medical scientists. Similarly, structural biologists, chemists, medical scientists should frame a multidisciplinary team for therapeutic and vaccine development programs. Social workers must join hands with the physicians and policy makers to bring awareness of the COVID-19. Recently, Nature medicine editorial appealed for the collaboration and cooperation approaches from all the levels (Figure 1 ) (10) . Straight away, joining hand, quick communication and collaboration among Governments from SARS-CoV-2 affected countries can provide a way-out of this crisis. More funds are required from Governments, pharmaceutical firms, funding aid agencies to solve the secrecy of this viral outbreak. No potential conflict of interest was declared by authors. Funding A novel coronavirus outbreak of global health concern Development of epitope based peptide vaccine against novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS COV 2): Immunoinformatics approach The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: a zoonotic prospective SARS-CoV-2 causing pneumonia-associated respiratory disorder (COVID-19): diagnostic and proposed therapeutic options Economic Impact of the 2015 MERS Outbreak on the Republic of Korea's Tourism-Related Industries Epidemiology and cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong, People's Republic of China Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin Pattern of early human-to-human transmission of Wuhan Communication, collaboration and cooperation can stop the 2019 coronavirus