CORONA VIRUS HAS BECOME A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

16 March 2020
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COVID-19

On 11the march World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Pandemic (a epidemic affecting a large geographical area; often on a global scale) , pointing to over 118000 cases of corona virus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and sustained risk of further global spread.

WHO headquarter  – Geneva , Switzerland 

No. of people who are currently infected by this virus  :

Corona virus cases – 126300

Deaths – 4633

Recovered – 68285

China has recovered most of its patients. Unfortunately it started from there but they have recovered with lot of hard work. After China most infected country is Italy with 12462 cases, 827 deaths, and 1045 recovered.

Last Pandemic Disease was SWIN FLUE (H1N1) 2009. Declared by WHO in 2010

Some Important things you need to know about Covid-19 in detail :

1. What’s   CORONA VIRUS and from where it started?
2. How much dangerous is it?
3. Symptoms
4. Preventions
5. In India how much it is infected?

What’s COVID-19 ?

First of corona virus is not a single virus it is a family virus. On 31st December 2019 it was founded in Wuhan, China. They named it N-COV (Novel corona virus). Generally its original source is generates from some animal which affect the human and later through human to human contact this corona virus spread amongst humans. For example – SARS virus spread amongst humans through bat in 2003.

How Much Dangerous is it?

Currently total number of infected people are 152000 and 5845 people dead globally. So if we look at the proportion of

Total no. of people infected: total no. of deaths there is approx 2% of chances to death. This 2% is a mortality rate , this means that in case you contact the infection of the novel corona virus then what are the chances that you are going to die because of it?

2% means there us 98% chances that you are not going to die because of it, eventually you will recover. In fact studying the cases until now it has been found out that most people that die due to corona virus already had weak immune system due to some other reasons. Most were elderly and old or their immune system was already weak before hand for example – a heart disease or any other problem. 

SYMPTOMS:

Symptoms are similar of corona virus like COUGH, COLD, HEADACHE, FRVER, CHILL, SORE THROAT. All this happen to you when you catch a cough and cold normally or when you catch seasonal flu and these are the symptoms of the new Corona Virus. 

This is a unfortunate thing because due to this, it is very difficult to recognize when you have contacted a normal seasonal flu and when you have contacted the new corona virus. When there is any extreme case of corona virus then one may contact pneumonia too.

The incubation period of corona virus is between 2-11 days this is if you are infected it might take 11 days for the symptoms to show. 

CURE:

There is no vaccine to prevent corona virus. WHO recommend some cure to reduce the risk :

• Clean hands regularly with Alcohol  based hand rub or soap and water.
• Cover nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing with tissue or flexed elbow.
• Avoid close contact (1m – 3feet) with anyone with cold flu symptoms.
• Avoid travelling for few days.
• Avoid going to public place
• As soon as you see symptoms contact to nearly hospital.

Preventions

CASES OF CORONA VIRUS IN INDIA ;

Nearly 74 cases are founded infected in India with 1 death . Recently 1 case is found in Odisha today.

Corona virus in India

MY OPINION:

People should maintain precautions and do not panic. It can be recoverable at 2-3% chances of death. There has been so much of fear mongering by the media an atmosphere of panic is being created almost as if the new virus is akin to a zombie apocalypse.

But economically it will have deleterious effect not only on china but also world economy. As every place are getting close and country like china, Italy and now even India is also close for few days and as we see oil prices are also decrease , there are chances of economy to low.