Covid-19 a "pandemic" & India's "survival instincts"
Descriptions
-A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019.
• The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020.
• On 11 February 2020, WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease: COVID-19(Novel corona virus) .
• The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020.
• On 11 February 2020, WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease: COVID-19(Novel corona virus) .
How it spreads:People can catch COVID-19 from others who have the virus. The disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks.
"Symptoms"
Fever
Dry cough
Tiredness
COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization.
Most common symptoms:Fever, dry cough, tierdness
Less common symptoms:aches, sore throat, diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, headache, loss of taste/smell, rashes/discoloration of finger or toes
Serious symptoms:difficulty breathing, chest pain, loss of speech
Treatment:
Why it has become pandemic?
- Eventhough contagenic nature of covid-19 was known (AS same as SARS,2003) after more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives and thousands more are fighting for their lives in hospitals, COVID-19 is characterized as a pandemic on March 11 2020 by WHO.
- Failure of China's efforts in containing the infection.
- Unscreened immigrations.
- Late implementation of lock down by well developed countries leading to chaos.
Statistics
India's survival instincts
Fight against corona
-"Fastest response" from Govt. of India & ministry of National health and family welfare has effectively controlled covid-19 out break than other well developed countries.
-"Special action team(doctors, nurses, paramedics)" are fighting effectively in treating and rehabilitating affected individuals.
-Special screening app "Aarogya setu app" :"the app has been able to identify more than 3,000 hotspots in 3-17 days ahead of time."Medical services to remote areas also made possible.
-special quarantine homes to control disease spread.
-Increased public awareness:regarding _disease control,healthy diet,personal hygiene..
-fastest implementation of central lockdown norms by state government's.
-Public support to Govt.
-coordinating with other countries in developing effective drugs, vaccines & advanced treatment modalities for covid-19...
ECONOMIC UPLIFTING
-Govt. Special relief packages & other packages to uplift Indian economy.
-RBI stratergies(decreasing interest rates, lending money to banks with Govt.surity...)
-Moratorium...
Helping the needy
- Relocating the labour's to their homeland
- One nation one ration
- Voluntary food supply to the needy...
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