The corona virus disease 2019 is a type of pneumonia which is found to be fatal. The novel corona virus named as SARS CoV 2 which emerged from Whuan, China in December 2020 is now spread in more than 200 countries and has lead to more than 40,000 fatalities worldwide. The COVID 19 hence stood up as the most dangerous disease with highest fatalities in the world. The taxanomy of this novel virus is not very similar to other corona virus (MERS CoV and SARS CoV) which have also affected humans. Thus it has created a situation where we don’t have any such antiviral drug which can be effective against this virus during its incubation in human body. The spread of this novel virus is so rapid that it took only couple of months to spread to almost whole world. The symptoms are as common as cold, cough; sore throat and lastly pneumonia which are very normal and similar to influenza infection so were not treated seriously during initiation of spread. As there is no prevention and cure for this novel virus and no first line treatment for COVID 19 the only way to combat this disease is to stop the spread which can only be done by social distancing which is also being advised by WHO.