What is COVID-19 and what you need to know about it?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
is a virus that can lead to misleading deaths in a large amount, but one can take precautions in order to protect themselves from getting infected.
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause disease in animals. Seven, including the new virus, have made the jump to humans, but most just cause cold-like symptoms.
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of an outbreak of “pneumonia of unknown cause” detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China — the seventh-largest city in China with 11 million residents. As of January 23, there are over 800 cases of 2019-nCoV confirmed globally, including cases in at least 20 regions in China and nine countries/territories. The first reported infected individuals, some of whom showed symptoms as early as December 8, were discovered to be among stallholders from the Wuhan South China Seafood Market. Subsequently, the wet market was closed on Jan 1. The virus causing the outbreak was quickly determined to be a novel coronavirus. On January 10, gene sequencing further determined it to be the new Wuhan coronavirus, namely 2019-nCoV, a beta coronavirus, related to the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome virus (MERS-CoV) and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus (SARS-CoV). However, the mortality and transmissibility of 2019-nCoV are still unknown, and likely to vary from those of the prior referenced coronaviruses.
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
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In a world of polarising distrust and trade tensions, the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), both within nations and internationally, is aided and abetted by misinformation that circumnavigates the planet in microseconds. Such misinformation is not all malevolent, although its impact can be devastating. Some have sought to limit misinformation about COVID-19 on social media by pressuring corporations, such as Facebook, Weibo, and Twitter, to censor bad actors — an approach that has not stopped conspiracy theorists, trolls, and liars.
If financial markets are jittery about the flow of information and disruption to production and supply chains with the global spread of COVID-19 and governments are seeking to avoid panic among their populaces, they need to invest in bastions of truth — or, at least, in those that attempt to identify information based on scientific principles.
Many trades, businesses and capitals are facing huge losses in the market and the share market is currently dropping rapidly, you can read about this in the following news article https://www.bbc.com/news/business-5190319.
Companies have started shutting down the office campuses for a few weeks and employees are currently assigned work from home, Social gatherings are being affected all the educational and professional institutions are shut down for some time, Gymnasiums and public arenas are being shut.
Myths about the Corona Virus
Many rumors have been spread through social media and the internet that coronavirus gets inactive or gets killed at high temperature, as a result, the citizens of countries with high temperatures and climate are thinking that they won’t get affected, But this is not true. No scientific study proves that the above-claimed statement is true or false.
Other is that people have started wearing masks rather than giving more importance to personal hygiene and avoid social interactions.
The Bad Businessmen
Some people have started holding the huge stock of hand sanitizers, toilet paper rolls, and pollution masks. Many such citizens have been arrested and one such case was as mentioned below in the Hixson United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thanks to technology
1 Online banking and wallets saved thousands of lives since most of the transactions done online would have been done using cash (that might have been transferred through an infected person).
2 Advanced research and development, many countries have set up the COVID-19 checkup centers and health organizations are working on producing the vaccine soon.
3 Thanks to social media (that has created the awareness) and live report and visualization tools.
The need for the ours
Some of the citizens have tried to create awareness in whatever way possible, here are some of the informative tweets that you need to see
What do you need to do now?
1 Stay indoors
2 Avoid touching your face
3 Avoid Social interactions and travels
4 Keep yourself clean and wash your hands frequently.
5 Don’t panic and keep yourself updated about the issue.
6 Take work from home or a week off from work (if remote work is not possible)
