CoronaVirus - Exact Symptoms,Fatality,Precautions,Spreading of Virus,Social Distancing ,Janta Curfew

CoronaVirus - Covid-19 , Update

Corona virus has spread in more than 100 countries across the world.

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Contents - 

• Covid-19 New Name
• Exact Symptoms Of CoronaVirus
• Difference with Common Cold
• Symptoms Visibility
• Comparison Between Common Conditions
• Chance Of Death
• Mortality rate Country By Country
• Germany And South Korea
• How Does Virus Spread
• Person To person
• Respiratory Droplets
• R[Not]
• Social Distancing
• Covid-19 in Italy
• Janta Curfew
• Colombia
• Vaccine
• Economic Impact

Today as per March 2020,21 there have been more than 277,310 cases and more than 11,431 deaths worldwide as of 21 march. There have been more than 91,994 recoveries.

As in our previous post, the virus had yet not been named. It was being called as novel coronavirus.

Now the scientist named it as SARS-Cov—2 because this virus is very similar to the SARS virus that had spread in 2003.

Exact Symptoms of the virus

All the cases in china have been analysed by doctors and researchers to find out the exact symptoms of covid-19 and how is it different from common cold and flu.

Their analysis revealed that - 

88% of the cases fever is mandatorily seen in the cases of covid-19. 

There is dry cough in 68% of the cases.

There is fatigue in 38% of the cases 

shortness of breath in 18% of them.

what are the differences with common cold.

If you have common cold, then the biggest symptom is runny nose but the factor of runny nose in covid 19 has only been seen in 5% of the cases so, if you have runny nose, then you can relax. It means that there is a high chance that you might just have the common cold.

If you are having difficulty in breathing, then it is a symptom of covid -19. 

Symptoms Visibility

Another imp thing regarding symptoms that has been said by who is that only mild symptoms are visible in 80% of covid-19 cases that is, 80% of the people who have contracted covid-19 will not experience a lot of pain. Their bodies will recover on their own without doing anything.

Severe symptoms are visible in 14% of the covid-19 cases and 4.7% cases will enquire critical care and they will need to go to the hospital. In the rest of the cases, there might be fatalities.

Generally, on average it takes 5-6 days for symptoms to show up in your body but you are contagious in 5-6 days.

You’ve contracted the infection while you assume yourself to be healthy and fit and you have no disease but then too, you can spread infection to other people.This is what make covid-19 extremely dangerous.

The symptoms are not visible in the people and they go out and interact people with other people and they spread disease.

Comparison Between Common Conditions

Chance of death

The Mortality Rate is around 4% but experts still believe that mortality rate of covid-19 is only 2% because there are lot of cases that are not being reported.

In the case of China it has been seen that there have been deaths in 15% of the cases of age is 80+.

It is clear that covid – 19 is more deadly for the elderly.

Examining the mortality rate country by country

For example, 

In Germany,more than 16,000 cases have been seen but there have been only 44 deaths its fatality rate is 0.27%.

If we observe the same thing in UK the death rate there comes out to be 4.4%. in Italy it is 8.3 % 

There is a huge difference in this county by country.

Germany and South Korea

It is difficult to ascertain the exact reason behind this but experts have given their opinion on why this is happening.

Germany

Three main reasons have been put forward in the case of Germany –

1. 70% of the corona cases is in the young people in Germany which is 20-50 year age group.

 2.Germany took testing very seriously and has been conducting tests on a very large scale of the common people.

 3.good healthcare system of Germany.

The hospital bed availability in Germany is far better in comparison to other countries.

South Korea

South Korea is another example in which has been very successful in containing the spread of covid-19.

There are sufficient no of hospitals beds in the country. 

Testing of people was conducted on a large scale. 

The infected people were kept isolated and the country reacted very quickly. 

Testing should also increase on large scale in our country

How does the virus spread

• Person to person

If you are close contact with an infected person,

That is if you are around 6 feet close then you have very high chances of contracting the virus.

• Respiratory Droplets

when an infected person coughs or sneezes, then if the respiratory droplets that come out go inside your nose or mouth, then you too get infection.

If the respiratory droplets Exist in the air, then the virus can survive up to - 

3 hours in the air

For a day on cardboard 

3 days on plastic 

on steel it can survive up to 3 days.

R[Not]

R[not] means how many more people will an infected person infect, on average.

R{not] for this virus is around 2-3.

On average one person will infect two to three people.

In comparison with a lot of other diseases, it is quite low but when we compared with flu.The [r-not] value of flu is 1.3- so this is many times more than that.

The SARS virus that had spread in 2003 had a R-not value similar to it.

Social Distancing

Due to this virus,

Talks of social distancing are being done today, that is, avoid getting out of your homes and when you get out of your homes, then maintain distance from the other people. Maintain a distance of approx. 6-7 feet’s

Covid-19 In Italy

A point of time will come when so many people will come in and not enough hospital beds will be available for them so the people that can be saved will not get saved and this is the exact reason why covid-19 became such a huge crisis in Italy.

The government was not prepared the number of infected people raise so drastically that there was a dearth of space in hospitals there weren’t enough hospital beds.

This is the reason why the other countries took example of Italy and learnt from it.

Now the countries across the world have been taking more action towards social distancing.

• Public places are shut 
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• people are being told to stay indoors, new 
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• hospitals are being constructed
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• stadiums are being converted into hospitals 

so that sufficient availability of hospital beds.

Janta Curfew

As a first step, this is a great decision to tell people to not to step out of their homes and to self-Quarantine themselves but this is just the first step.

Myths

This virus can survive only for 12 hours and so on this virus will vanish completely after 14 hours that is not true. 

Some people state that the spread of virus will be contained due to heat with onset summers but who maintain that we should not rest false hopes on this

Even through the mortality rate is so low, if such a huge amount of the population gets infected.

The virus is not going to go away by quarantining for 14 hours. 

Reduce going out of your houses as much as possible adopt as many social distancing measures as possible.

France And Italy

Police in France and Italy have been fining people for stepping out of their homes without a proper reason.

Precautions by Colombia

Colombia is a country in south America that as declared 19 days’ quarantine for the entire country even when there hasn’t been a single death due to coronavirus.

Vaccine

It might take a year for covid 19 vaccine to arrive so until then, efforts are on to control its spread.

Economic impact

Due to this virus directly and due to - 

lockdown of cities 

As well as shut down of public places 

The people have been unable to work. 

This will have such an economic impact on the world economy which hasn’t been seen in centuries.

Foreign Government Steps

Some governments have already declared they will pay salary to the people who are unable to go to work.

The government will save the companies from

being bankrupt and shutting down.

In a lot of European countries, in

New Zealand, in UK and even in the USA it has

been declared that government fund worth 

billions of dollars are being brought in to 

save the people from its economic impact

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