What is coronavirus – How it spread, A Brief ?

A coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, has killed over 2,700 people and infected more than 80,000.

What is Covid?

It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city.

What are the symptoms - causes?

The virus can cause pneumonia. Those who have fallen ill are reported to suffer coughs, fever and breathing difficulties. In severe cases there can be organ failure. As this is viral pneumonia, antibiotics are of no use. The antiviral drugs we have against flu will not work. Recovery depends on the strength of the immune system. Many of those who have died were already in poor health.

The disease has spread to at least 37 other countries.

The coronavirus family is a large group of viruses that typically affect the respiratory tract.

Doctors suspect that this new coronavirus jumped from animals to people at a seafood market and then humans started transmitting the virus to one other.

They can cause the common cold, pneumonia, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Travel spreads this kind of virus like wildfire.