CORONAVIRUS ( COVID-19): THE PANDEMIC

 

Coronaviruses are the RNA viruses that cause diseases in animals including human beings. The first coronavirus was discovered in the 1930s but in animals and in the 1960s it was first time discovered in human beings. The new coronavirus or termed as a noble coronavirus (COVID-19) also belongs to the same corona family. The noble coronavirus (COVID-19) has originated from the wet market of the Wuhan province of China where the animals were slaughtered and sold for food and medicine purposes. Scientists discovered many theories i.e it may have come from bats or maybe from snake or pangolins. In recent, there was a leak of Five Eye Dossier Report from Australia which lists the details that the viruses are mutated at Wuhan Institute of Virology but they have not confirmed it that COVID-19 was also one of them for now.

Coronavirus mainly causes flu-like symptoms i.e common cold, headache, and mild illness in early stages whereas in later stages it can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) or middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) which affects the respiratory system of human beings and it may also cause the failure of different body organs as well lead to death. The symptom occurrence can vary between one day to fourteen days or in some cases there is asymptomatic i.e no symptoms shown or pre-symptomatic i.e shows symptoms after a few days but doesn’t show in early days. The recent report from WHO shows that 80% of cases are asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, or having mild symptoms which is an alarming situation. In India now the community transfer of virus has taken place and failure of the government to curb in early-stage should be blamed for this. The government of India took two month period of lockdown as granted and after the spreading took in community-level then the government started working on health facilities but that was too late.

There are many silent spreaders i.e asymptomatic patients who are wandering like a free bird and transferring the disease to others. To notice silent spreaders, testing of the wide population must be carried which is almost an impossible task in India because of its high population. At the village level, though people are having symptoms don’t prefer testing for corona because in village corona patient are treated like an alien and people act harshly on them. So, in village level awareness campaigns about the coronavirus and gentleness against corona patients must be run. Moreover, there must be a provision of assistance to corona patients as they will be quarantined for at least 14 days or even more days. The assistance of providing food supplies at their doors and along with all other necessities.

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