Add that it hadn’t got a cure until recently and we are still a while away from a viable sellable drug...
Viruses can't be 'cured' in the way we consider bacterial infections (etc) can be with antibiotics.
Generally, it's up to your own immune system to systematically eliminate it from you; this is what vaccines try to encourage such that any new infection (of the same) fails to manifest. Some viruses are well adapted to avoid the immune system by either 'changing unrecognisably' or moving to unreachable areas.
The only other common management strategy, for now, is the use of antiviral drugs. It's important to note that these do not actively remove or destroy viruses at all; they just inhibit either their development or spread. Some viruses can stay dormant in cells, enabling the infection to re-establish itself if there's no longer any antivirals to stop them... This happens, for example, in the very common herpes simplex viruses (you know, the one which gives you cold sores?) and is why they will flare up every so often.. if you've had a cold sore once, you'll
always have that symptom come up occasionally again and again. HIV is another example of similar behaviour. Even then, the drugs themselves need to be affective against what they're meant to be.
However, most viruses are able to be properly eliminated by the body eventually, it's just a matter of decent research about this particular one to determine more about it. It really should be quite like the other few human coronoviruses which are common. As always, the main concern is both its contagiousness and its ability to induce pneumonia (either directly or indirectly via resulting weak immune system). The most worrying virus for us would be one which was extremely contagious and highly (but not totally) lethal in at least one way - this is only as or less contagious as most viruses causing the cold and is a lot more challenging for elderly lungs.
The main idea is to contain it best as possible; in worst case spread if everyone's going to contract it eventually,
you definitely don't want it happen all at once, and definitely not during winter where there are other things to contend with (ie; secondary infections and saturated healthcare services). There is only so much facility available...
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