All you need to know about Novel Coronavirus
WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic disease.The name “coronavirus” is derived from Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “wreath”, itself a borrowing from Greek, “garland, wreath”.COVID-19 is the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Those People who are old age or above 50 is at the highest risk for severe complications.
As of 28 March 2020, there have been at least 27,333 confirmed deaths and more than 595,953 confirmed cases in the coronavirus pandemic. The virus has a 96% similarity to a bat coronavirus, so it is widely suspected to originate from bats as well.] The pandemic has resulted in travel restrictions and nationwide lockdowns in several countries.
What is coronavirus ?
Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold, and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. So,basically coronavirus is a group of virus that attack you respiratory organs and creates problems like common cold,mild fever,headache,Respiratory problems,sore throat etc. COVID-19 is mainly spread person to person, likely through respiratory droplets when someone coughs or sneezes. Transmission can happen when people are in close contact with one another, usually up to about six feet. COVID-19 can also live on surfaces up to a few days.
When it All Started ?
Human coronaviruses were first discovered in the late 1960s. The earliest ones discovered were an infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two in human patients with the common cold (later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43),but the recent case has been found in the city of wuhan in china or we can say that China is the epicenter of coronavirus for which china was criticised by many different countries to give birth or increase this epidemic disease.
In December 2019, a pneumonia outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus,[61] which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), Some researchers have suggested that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market may not be the original source of viral transmission to humans.From then,this coronavirus has been spread to other nations .Italy and USA are the most affected nation by this virus.
Effects of coronavirus across world
The Novel coronavirus has not only become a reason of death for thousand of people but also shattered many business due to which some people lost their job too,due to this novel coronavirus many goverment have ordered lockdown in their respective nations and this lockdown become the reason of shutting down the operations of all businesses across all sectors.The most affected country is italy in which almost 8000 people lost their lives,and it followed by china from where this virus emerged,almost 3,500 people died due to coronavirus and now, US have become the number one in this list as their total number of coronavirus exceeds 100000.Those people who tests positive are putting in quarantine for which many quarantine have been setup be goverment and also many hotels,train coaches has been turned into quarantine centre,and some people are also self-quarantine who have some past travel history.
Due to this virus the share market also effected,in India,sensex was at 10 year low and not only in India this virus affect the market condition worldwide.The WB officials states today that world, ‘can see depression as bad or worse than 2009 due to this pandemic of novel coronavirus‘. This pandemic has been worst affected to the poor people in India,due to nationwide lockdown, they lost their jobs and now they don’t have enough resources to survive and now they are returning to their hometown though walking,some people are going to their hometown through walk on the roads which is very bad news as these things will increase the spread of coronavirus among people.
Steps taken by different Goverment to tackle this pandemic
The Goverment of different countries had started initiating action plans now,because novel coronavirus is the contagious disease it may be infected 100% population, if no steps taken by the goverment but the goverment are taking it seriously and jointly work with goverment of different countries to tackle this problem.To tackle this problem Indian goverment has stopped public gathering,events and sites like amusement park,cinemas schools and colleges and also imposed section 144 in some areas to restrict public gathering but after seeing rising cases of coronavirus the goverment has ordered nationwide lockdown to restrict the people going outside their house to stop the spread of coronavirus. The goverment and some social institution also helping poor and middle-class families by providing free masks,free food and shelter to the poor people those who lost their jobs and also goverment is providing double pension to handicapped person,old-age person and widows,maybe this could help these poor and middle class family to survive amidst this pandemic.
In Italy,Public gatherings have been banned and freedom of movement sharply stop. All domestic events in the country have been suspended while,Iran has reported more than 8,000 cases and nearly 300 deaths from COVID-19 and for this Public gatherings, including Friday prayers in Tehran and other major cities, have been canceled. Schools have been closed and crews of cleaners have been dispatched to disinfect trains, buses and gathering places.South korea has become very successful to slow down the spread of coronavirus in its respective nation by applying techniques like T3-trace,test and treat,this technique has helped South korea to beat the coronavirus. Like this,many countries are now step forward and taking strict action to tackle this novel coronavirus.
But only goverment can’t do much to stop this we as a responsible citizen,should also need to do something to help goverment by following all preventive measure like not going outside except if its very important,wash hands frequently and also help some helpless people by providing them resources , or in form of donation etc and I don’t know when this pandemic will stopped but i can surely say one thing that by jointly efforts and co-ordination among countries and its citizens. we can slow down the spread of this epidemic disease and maybe after 4-5 months we could live a normal life.
Lastly,I would request to all of my readers to be safe and stay at home.
References
wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus
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