What is Coronavirus?
Coronaviruses (COV) are a huge group of viruses that cause normal cold to serious illnesses, for example, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain not identified in humans earlier.
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, which means they are transmitted between animals and people. A point by point examination found that SARS-CoV was shipped from kvet cats to people and MERS-CoV to dromedary camels to people. Many known coronaviruses are roaming in animals that have not yet infected people.
Basic indications of infection incorporate respiratory side effects, fever, hack, cough, brevity of breath, and trouble relaxing. In progressively severe cases, disease can prompt pneumonia, acute respiratory disorder, kidney failure, and even death.
Standard recommendation to prevent infection incorporate routinely washing hands, covering mouth and nose when hacking and sniffling, cooking meat and eggs altogether. Maintain a strategic distance from close contact with anybody giving indications of respiratory infection like cough & sneezing.
The WHO has announced the coronavirus disease as a worldwide health crisis.
How did it spread?
According to the sources, the coronavirus started spreading from a “wet market” in Wuhan which sold both dead and live animals including fish and birds.
Such markets represent an elevated danger of infections bouncing from animals to people since cleanliness models are hard to keep up if live animals are being kept and butchered nearby. Normally, they are additionally thickly packed.
The animal wellspring of the most recent outbreak has not yet been distinguished, however the first host is believed to be bats. Bats were not sold at the Wuhan advertisement however may have tainted live chickens or different animals sold there.
Bats are host to a wide scope of zoonotic infections including Ebola, HIV and rabies.
Till now, this virus has been spread in 88 countries and more than 3,800 have died due to this.
Coronavirus current status in India?
Until 9th March 2020; 42 has been detected with Coronavirus in India, out of which 13 are Italian citizens, who were travelling to Jaipur.
Towards prevention from this disease, the government has suspended all tourist visas of China, Iran, Japan, and South Korea the badly affected countries with Coronavirus.
India additionally limited export of around 26 Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and formulations antibiotics, vitamins and hormones like Paracetamol, Tinidazole, Metronidazole, Vitamins B1, B6, B12, hormone progesterone, with immediate effect.
Indian government also introduced screening wards in Delhi, Mumbai, Karnataka, Manipur and Mizoram.
In Delhi-NCR, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML hospital), AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Science), Safdarjung hospital, and a camp in Manesar are monitoring the suspects.
In Maharashtra, two hospitals Kasturba Hospital and Naidu hospital (Pune) have been dedicated.
In Manipur there are five centres, and in Mizoram one centre (Zokhawhtar) is dedicated to monitor Coronavirus suspects.
