COVID-19 virus is a type of virus which causes disease to human beings. They mainly cause respiratory illness, but due to fast mutation they are becoming even more powerful. The virus has an incubation period of 14 days. According to WHO (World Health Organisation), the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease which is caused by a new type of virus known as coronavirus. The disease mainly causes symptoms like cough, fever and difficult breathing.
ORIGIN OF CORONAVIRUS:
It was seem that in late 2019 in Huanan seafood market originated in Wuhan, China was started getting affected by a new type of virus which is now known as Coronavirus.
However Prof. Stephen Turner, head of the department of microbiology at Melbourne’s Monash University said that the virus has most likely came from bats. But according to some other sources it is also said that the virus was being made in Wuhan Institute of Virology which is located in China, so that it could be used as a bio-weapon, but this was just an assumption and till now there are no such evidence found against it.
HOW DOES THE VIRUS SPREAD?
The coronavirus can spread through different ways which can be controlled by us. So let us take a look on how the coronavirus spreads.
Person to person contact
Droplets from the infected person.
Physical involvement with an infected person.
By using unhygienic toilets.
Transmission from infected women to her newborn by breastfeeding.
By touching sensible body parts such as eyes, nose or mouth with unclean hand.
SYMPTOMES OF COVID-19 DISEASE:
Usually viruses are much more dangerous compared to bacteria or protozoa. People may fall sick with the virus within 1 to 14 days because at this stage the virus undergoes through incubation, which means they repeatedly expands themselves and makes more lookalike cells so that they can successfully breakdown our immune system.
The main symptoms which can be seen in this stage are:
These are few common symptoms which can be found when a person gets affected by coronavirus.
CAN COVID-19 DISEASE BE TREATED?
Viruses are mainly more powerful than bacteria and protozoa that’s why antibiotics don’t works on them. But we can’t say that it cannot be treated, because there are many cases which have been successfully trated. But till now we don’t have a proper vaccine or medicine which can completely destroy these types of viruses. But soon the researchers will find a cure for this disease. As per economics times there are nearly 70 drugs which can play an effective role to cure C0VID-19 disease, these assumptions are made by the scientists. WHO does not recommend self-medication with any medicines which also includes antibiotics as a prevention or cure of COVID-19.
HOW TO KEEP OURSELVES SAFE?
As we can see that, till now there is no successful drug which can cure this disease. In this situation we can do few things which will be very helpful for us to fight against this disease.
Wash your hands with liquid soap.
Use sanitizers readily.
Stay at home to prevent from getting infected.
Keep a distance of up to 1 meter from another person.
Use N95 masks or low porous masks.
Contact to your nearby doctor if you detect the symptoms.
At last by following all these steps we can defeat this disease. This is a very tough situation for us and all of us have to unite together to fight with this disease.