What is Coronavirus and how to stay safe from it?

What Is a Coronavirus?

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known for containing strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds. And human comes under mammals, and in humans they’re typically spread via airborne droplets of fluid produced by infected individuals.

It was first found in Wuhan, China. Some rare but notable strains, including Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and those responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), can cause death in humans.

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Corona virus Symptoms And Cure

Symtoms

Coronaviruses can give rise to a variety of symptoms in different animals. While some strains cause diarrhoea in pigs and in turkeys, most of the time infections can be compared to a bad cold, causing mild to moderate upper respiratory problems such as a runny nose and sore throat.

There are a handful of lethal exceptions, which have had a devastating impact on livestock and human health around the globe.

Global Health Concern- Wuhan corona virus (2019-nCoV)
Wuhan corona virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019. At the time of writing, numbers of infected are still on the rise, with a number of deaths having been reported.

Snakes have been suspected as a potential source for the outbreak, though other experts currently consider this as unlikely.
Cause of corona virus

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV)

SARS was first recognised as a distinct strain of coronavirus in 2003. The source of the virus has never been clear, though the first human infections can be traced back to the Chinese province of Guangdong in 2002.

The virus then became a pandemic, causing more than 8,000 infections of an influenza-like disease in 26 countries with close to 800 deaths.

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV)

MERS was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 in people displaying symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of breath and occasionally gastrointestinal problems such as diarrhoea. An animal source for the virus has never been officially confirmed, though evidence points to dromedary camels as a potential reservoir of infection.

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The World Health Organisation has identified around 2,500 cases of infection in 27 countries since initial outbreaks, resulting in nearly 860 deaths.

Death toll in China surpasses 600
The death toll and the number of infections continued to climb in China, according to official data released early Friday.

The W.H.O. said it had activated an international “network of specialized referral laboratories” to support individual countries’ labs in confirming new cases. It also said it would ship 250,000 test kits to 159 laboratories across the world, to help speed up diagnoses.

The quarantine comes amid a lockdown of the city and much of the surrounding province of Hubei that has exacerbated a shortage of medical supplies, testing kits and hospital beds.