WHAT IS COVID 19?
The most deadly disease is spreading all over the world enormously known as CORONA VIRUS. The virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARAS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes is called COVID 19. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Disrupting the life of several humans, disturbing the economic sector of the world as a whole, COVID19 will make the world famine one day.
WHERE WAS THE FIRST CASE OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE OBSERVED?
This deadly virus appeared for the first time in Wuhan, China in December of 2019 which is now spreading in many countries. The earliest cases had a link to a wholesale food market in Wuhan, also known as the wet market but some had no connections with the market.
According to the reports by SOUTH MORNING POST, a news update channel had reported that A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The case was reported back on 17 November 2019. Even with this Nov. 17 case identified, doctors can’t be certain the individual is “patient zero,” or the very first individual to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. After this almost everyday new five cases were reported and cases increased day after day.
ORIGIN OF COVID-19
Doctors and Scientists are trying hard to unravel the story of the origin of coronavirus. Some scientists believe that the deadly virus emerged from bats, then probably they hopped to pangolin and transmitted to humans. The disease is now sweeping the world without any animal intermediate.
The Guardian in a report on April 28 quoted professor Stephen Turner, head of the department of microbiology at Melbourne’s Monash University, as saying what is most likely that the virus originated in bats. ‘But that is where his certainty ends,’ the reporter concluded. On the hypothesis that the virus emerged at the Wuhan live animal market from an interaction between an animal and a human, Turner says, ‘I don’t think it is conclusive by any means. Part of the problem is that the information is only as good as the surveillance,’ he said, adding that viruses of this type are circulating all the time in the animal kingdom.
Others says,‘I rather think that COVID-19 is a coronavirus which had an animal reservoir and passed into humans for reasons that are not well known yet,’ said Delfraissy, who is also president of France’s National Consultative Ethics Committee for health and life sciences. Another study claim to have ruled out pangolins as an intermediary because samples of similar viruses taken from pangolins lacked a chain of amino acids seen in the virus now found in humans.
We can conclude, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still a mystery and it will go longer to unravel this mystery.
SYMPTOMS OF CORONA VIRUS
COVID-19 affects everyone differently. Proper medications are required, some recover from the mild illness without hospitalization.
| Less Common Symptoms | Most Common Symptoms | Serious Symptoms |
| aches and pains | fever | difficulty in breathing |
| headache | dry cough | chest pain |
| loss of taste or smell | tiredness | loss of speech |
| sore throat | ||
| diarrhea | ||
| a rash on skin, or discoloration of fingers or toes |
On an average it takes, 5-6 days to show the symptoms or it can take maximum of 14 days to show the symptoms for COVID-19.
TOTAL CASES-
More than 6.4 million cases have been reported by different countries. Among them the USA is leading holding the cases of COVID-19 worth 1.8 million cases, reporting 100K deaths. More than 380K people are dead in the world. COVID leaving the world famine, destroying the lives of people, the downfall of the economy, and the worst time of the world.
“STATICS OF THE ACTIVE CASES/DEATHS/TOTAL RECORDED CASES PER COUNTRY-“
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?
PRECAUTIONS-
As per researchers and doctors, the cure for covid19 will take time. But we can stop its spread by easily staying at home in quarantine, washing hands after every 20 minutes and not touching your eyes , nose and mouth repetitively. Take care of the children and old aged people as their immune system is weak as compared to the other adults. Don’t go out unnecessarily. Follow the advice launched by the government.Most of the countries are under Lockdown, as lockdown is the best possible solution from stopping this hazard COVID 19.
The dark times shall pass, we all have to stay together in this pandemic, it is the time to prove ourselves as active citizens of the country.
“Blimey! The ray will come, taking away the dark clouds”
-MUSKAN
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