Corona virus....
Now the people from nearly 195 countries are affected by the Corona virus... If we say it as a killer virus, it's true...
The infectious respiratory virus is responsible for a pneumonia like illness and it affected over 6lakhs people and it killed thousand and thousands of people in over 200 countries so far, according to WHO..
As the specific mode of transmission is not clear yet, the best way to prevent from the virus is not to exposed to it...
We all know, from where the virus was originated.....
As a specific family of viruses, Corona virus or COVID-19, which is said to have first originated in China's Wuhan, was declared a pandemic on March 11 by WHO. As per Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the infection may have started from an animal source but spreads through human to human contact. As per WHO, the virus that causes COVID-19 and the one that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 are related to each other genetically, but the diseases they cause are quite different. SARS was more deadly but much less infectious than COVID-19. There have been no outbreaks of SARS anywhere in the world since 2003.
Covid-19 primarily spreads through droplets of saliva.. Suppose if an infected person sneezes or coughs, then the droplets from an infected person will must affect the normal healthy person and it spreads so on....
Now understand who is at risk?
As per WHO, caused by the newly discovered coronavirus, most people infected will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness.
We all know that this virus is very dangerous to life. So what are all the preventive methods?, that we should follow....
WHO recommends to prevent infection and to slow transmission of COVID-19, do the following:
*Wash your hands regularly with soap and water, or clean them with alcohol-based hand rub.
*Maintain at least 1 metre distance between you and people coughing or sneezing.
*Avoid touching your face.
*Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing. However, WHO advises rational use of medical masks to avoid unnecessary wastage of precious resources and misuse of masks.
*Stay home if you feel unwell.
*Refrain from smoking and other activities that weaken the lungs.
*Practice physical distancing by avoiding unnecessary travel and staying away from large groups of people.
Many countries including India have put in lockdown measures and people have been asked to practice social distancing and self-quarantine to help break the transmission chain and slow the spread of the disease.
How Corona virus is different from flu?...
According to WHO, COVID-19 and the flu are both contagious viruses that cause respiratory illness and lead to symptoms such as nausea, shortness of breath, chest congestion, rise in temperature and if it gets difficult to contain, lead to pneumonia. While symptoms can appear anywhere between three to four days for flu, it takes two to 14 days for coronavirus symptoms to appear.
In hindsight, both may appear similar in the beginning. However, they belong to different virus families. Discovered only in 2019, the novel coronavirus wasn’t previously seen in humans. Compared to it, influenza virus was identified long ago, in 1918.
According to a February 2020 report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019, ‘airborne spread has not been reported for COVID-19 and it is not believed to be a major driver of transmission based on available evidence; however, it can be envisaged if certain aerosol-generating procedures are conducted in health care facilities'.
Is a vaccine available?
At this time, there are no specific vaccines or treatments for COVID-19. “However, there are many ongoing clinical trials, evaluating potential treatments. WHO will continue to provide updated information as soon as clinical findings become available,” stated WHO.
Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal vaccine and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccine, do not provide protection against the new coronavirus, states WHO. Although these vaccines are not effective against 2019-nCoV, vaccination against respiratory illnesses is highly recommended to protect your health, it advises.
There is no specific treatment for disease caused by a novel coronavirus. However, many of the symptoms can be treated and therefore treatment based on the patient's clinical condition.
OK, if some gets affected by Corona virus what is the recovery period?
Using available preliminary data, the median time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately 2 weeks and is 3-6 weeks for patients with severe or critical disease.
So in order to prevent the infection from the virus, our government decided to implement the lockdown... And is successfully under the process....
On 24 March 2020, the Government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, limiting movement of the entire 1.3 billion population of India as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
And it can be extended upto phase 4 in order to minimize it's speed of infection...
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