Potential Impact of COVID-19 on the Cotton Sector in Major Cotton Producing Countries

摘要

A severe acute respiratory syndrome coro-navirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first recognised in Wuhan in 2019 as a highly communicable virus whose origin is probably linked to the wet markets. SARS-CoV-2 causes Coronavirus disease of 2019 (C0VID-19). The virus is related to the middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS] viruses, all of which belong to the family Coronoviridae. First limited to Wuhan, the disease spread across 188 countries across the globe affecting 7,690,708 people and causing 427,630 deaths as of 14 June 2020 (WHO, 2020); and the number is still growing. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11th March 2020.