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How Did The  Coronavirus Outbreak Start?
 Fatal coronavirus which broke out in Wuhan, China in February has seized the international community by fear, as cases continue to mount, and world leaders strive to contain the epidemic.

 The World Health Organization's China office says it began taking the news in late December of a puzzling virus behind several pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in eastern China with a population of approximately 11 million people were affected.

What does Research say about reasons for the deadly disease?

Researchers assume the virus originated at a seafood market in Wuhan, where wild animals, including birds, rabbits, bats, and snakes are traded.

What is Coronavirus?

Coronaviruses were first identified in the 1960s, but we don't know where they come from. They get their name from their crown-like shape. Sometimes, but not often, a coronavirus can infect both animals and humans.

Most coronaviruses spread the same way other cold-causing viruses do: through infected people coughing & sneezing, by touching an infected person's hands or face, or by touching things such as doorknobs that infected people have touched.

Almost everyone gets a coronavirus infection at least once in their life, most likely as a young child. In the United States, coronaviruses are more common in the fall and winter, but anyone can come down with a coronavirus infection at any time.

What are the Symptoms of COVID-19?

 In early 2020, after a December 2019 outbreak in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified a new type, 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which can be fatal. The organization named the virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and named the disease it causes COVID-19. The outbreak quickly moved from China around the world. 

Symptoms of COVID-19 include:

Fever, 

Cough

Shortness of breath

Sore Throat

What to Do About Coronavirus?

To further restrict a coronavirus infection, do similar things you do to avoid the common cold:

• Clean your hands full with soap and warm water or with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• Keep your hands and fingers away from your eyes, nose, and mouth
• Avoid close contact with infected people

You treat a coronavirus infection the same way you treat a cold:

• Get plenty of rest
• Drink warm fluids
• Take over-the-counter medicine for a sore throat and fever
•  But don't provide aspirin to children or teens younger than 19; use ibuprofen or acetaminophen 
•  A humidifier or steamy shower can also help ease a sore and scratchy throat

How does the coronavirus spread

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 is mainly spread from person-to-person, normally by close contact (within six feet).
• It can spread through physical contact like handshaking if someone's hands are contaminated with the virus
•  Spread through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes (again, that's why the six-feet rule is handy: those droplets can travel that far, and land on another person's mouth or nose, and can even be inhaled).
• The virus may also spread from person-to-person through surfaces that have been touched by those infected. "A sneezing or coughing person will cover their mouth, get it all over their hand, and then touch something that you then touch," Robert Murphy, MD, an infectious disease expert at Northwestern University, tells Health, the virus can then gain entry into your body when you touch your face, he adds. 
• That’s exactly why experts can only preach basic disease-prevention measures, like washing hands correctly (20 seconds with soap and water) and regularly
• wiping down common surfaces

 Staying away from sick people

•   Coronavirus can spread between people is via fecal transmission According to recent research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), those with confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (aka, COVID-19) have the live virus in stool specimens, meaning there's a possible fecal-oral route for the virus.

Can you say if someone is infected with coronavirus?

• Sadly, the only way to truly know if someone has COVID-19 is to test them—that's because the symptoms of the disease look very similar to that of the common cold or flu: cough, fever, body aches
• It's also important to know that not everyone who is infected with coronavirus shows symptoms—as is the case with asymptomatic carriers, according to The New York Times, or those who carry the virus around, spreading to other people, but never falling ill themselves.
• Luckily, per the CDC, people infected with COVID-19 are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic.

How long does coronavirus wait on surfaces?

• The recent coronavirus outbreak sparked a 2020 review published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, which looked at other coronaviruses (including SARS, MERS, and other endemic human coronaviruses), and determined that they can live on surfaces like metal, glass, or plastic for anywhere from two hours to nine days.
• Subsequent research in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the virus can live on copper for up to four hours, on cardboard for up to 24 hours, and plastic and stainless steel for two to three days.
• That's a long time, but the review also found that those viruses can be "efficiently inactivated" via disinfection with ‘(62–71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within 1 minute’)
• Wiping down common surfaces (and avoiding touching common surfaces if possible) will help decrease the spread
• The CDC recommends cleaning tables, countertops, light switches, doorknobs, and cabinet handles regularly
•  Strangely, COVID-19 is spread by mail or packing too.

Does coronavirus spread through food?

• Especially since lots of other viruses, like norovirus or other gastrointestinal viruses can spread via contaminated food 
• But, while a risk can't be ruled out if an infected person prepares the food, or you buy it from a highly trafficked buffet, the coronavirus doesn't appear to be spread by food, per The New York Times.
• The main way respiratory illnesses are spread is by touching a common surface a sick person touched and then putting your hand up to your eyes, nose, or mouth, says Dr. Murphy.

How many deaths worldwide due to Coronavirus?

The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has officially been named a pandemic, according to on  March 11 news briefing by the World Health Organization and the decision, according to WHO Director-General -came to the conclusion that cases of COVID-19 increased 13-fold over two weeks, while the number of affected countries tripled.

Globally, about 133,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed to date, according to the WHO, those cases, 80,981 are in China, where 3,173 people have died from the illness. While, outside of China, COVID-19 has been confirmed in 122 other countries, territories, and areas affecting nearly 52,000 people—1,774 of whom have died till now!