Covid -19 Pandemic BASIC INFORMATION

Covid -19 Pandemic BASIC INFORMATION

WHAT IS A PANDEMIC

A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic, declared as such by the World Health Organization on March 12, 2020

COVID-19 is a "novel coronavirus," which means it’s a new disease unfamiliar to scientists and doctors. Its name is actually a mash-up of the words "corona" (CO); corona means "crown" in Latin (coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface), "virus" (VI), and "disease" (D).

HOW DID THE CORONA VIRUS START?

The coronavirus we’re talking about today is a new virus, which causes an illness called COVID-19. How did the coronavirus outbreak start? It’s not completely clear how the outbreak started, but it’s thought it’s likely to have begun on December 1919, in Wuhan, China at a local meat market known to sell wild animal meat like this Bat soup.

WHAT ARE SYMPTOMS?

1. any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease

WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN YOU ARE ASYMPTOMATIC?

: no symptoms, no signs, no evidence of the sickness

WHAT ARE VACCINES?

Vaccines are substances or medicines that help prevent the spread of the disease by helping the body's IMMUNE SYSTEM fight an INFECTIOUS DISEASE .This is given using injections.

PRAY FOR THE WORLD THAT THIS COVID PANDEMIC MAY END SOON.PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK AND DYING.