WHO clarifies remark on asymptomatic spread, calls it 'misunderstanding'

A top World Health Organization master has attempted to clear up "false impressions" about remarks she made that were broadly comprehended to propose that individuals without COVID-19 side effects once in a while transmit the coronnoavirus.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the U.N. wellbeing organization's specialized lead on the infection pandemic, demanded Tuesday that she was alluding just to a couple of studies, not a total picture, in the remarks she made Monday.
Van Kerkhove's comments on Monday brought up disarray and issues among outside specialists and wellbeing authorities who have suggested and in certain spots necessitated that individuals wear veils to attempt to keep the infection from spreading.
The explanation she gave during a WHO web based life visit demonstrated numerous inquiries stay about whether contaminated individuals who don't show side effects of disease, for example, fever, dry hack or trouble breathing can transmit the infection to other people.

Van Kerkhove stated: What I was alluding to yesterday were not many investigations, approximately a few examinations that have been distributed, that really attempt to follow asymptomatic cases. That is an exceptionally little subset of studies, she proceeded. I utilized the expression 'uncommon,' and I believe that that is (a) misconception to express that asymptomatic transmission all inclusive is uncommon. What I was alluding to was a subset of studies.

Coronavirus outbreak can now be classified as a pandemic, says WHO

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The new coronavirus episode would now be able to be depicted as a pandemic, the leader of the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was grieved by the spread and seriousness of the episode, alongside an absence of activity taken to battle it.
"WHO has been evaluating this episode nonstop and we're profoundly concerned, both by the disturbing degrees of spread and seriousness, and by the disturbing degrees of inaction," he told a news gathering in Geneva.
"We have along these lines made the evaluation that COVID-19 can be portrayed as a pandemic."
The quantity of cases in more than 100 nations around the globe has ascended to more than 124,000, with more than 4,500 passings, remembering a hop for fatalities in Iran and Italy specifically, as per an AFP count.
China remains the most noticeably terrible influenced nation with in excess of 80,000 affirmed cases and more than 3,000 passings. Tedros said that in the course of recent weeks, the quantity of cases outside China had expanded 13-overlay and the quantity of influenced nations had significantly increased.

He said he anticipated the quantity of cases and passings would develop in the coming days and weeks. "Pandemic isn't a word to utilize softly or recklessly," he told journalists, however he focused on that "depicting the circumstance as a pandemic doesn't change WHO's evaluation of the risk presented by the infection.".....Read More

Coronavirus Q&A: From prevention to testing, all that you need to know

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So far, close to 80 countries, including India, have already reported cases of Coronavirus infection or Covid-19. In India, the number of cases has risen to 28, including 15 Italian tourists in the country.
Well, experts still believe that the virus can be contained, but there are several questions and a lot of confusion around Dos and Don’ts.
Here're the top 9 questions you always wanted to ask
1. How does Coronavirus spread?
The virus cannot travel by itself. Its most common carrier is respiratory droplets, or saliva.
So when an infected person coughs or sneezes, the ejected saliva droplets infect others in their vicinity.
To avoid infection, doctors recommend maintaining a distance of at least 1 metre (3 feet) from the sick person.
2. What are the symptoms of Coronavirus infection?
Unlike other life-threatening diseases, the symptoms shown in the Coronavirus disease are not distinct. They are more like common cold and cough — such as fever, dry cough, exhaustion, expectoration of mucus when coughing, shortness of breath, sore throat, headaches, muscle aches, chills. Some less frequent symptoms are nausea and vomiting, stuffy nose and diarrhoea.
Running nose is not a symptom of Covid.
3. Is there any treatment found to combat the virus?

Despite toiling hard, scientists have so far not been able to find proven drugs or vaccines for effective treatment of the disease....READ MORE

Can coronavirus spread through cough and sex? Here's all you need to know

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Coronavirus is exceptionally infectious and is spreading at a lightning speed far and wide. The infection has just tainted individuals in near 70 nations. As per the World Health Organization, there are 92,819 affirmed cases and 3,164 passings
revealed all around. In India, absolute number of affirmed cases rose to six on Tuesday after an Italian visitor in Jaipur tried positive. So what is coronavirus and how might it be transmitted? Here is the thing that you have to know:
What is coronavirus?
Coronaviruses are a huge group of infections that cause ailment running from the normal virus to progressively serious sicknesses, for example, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV). A tale coronavirus (nCoV) is another strain that has not been recently recognized in people. The present alarm is a direct result of COVID-19, an irresistible infections brought about by the most as of late found coronavirus. The episode started in Wuhan in China in December, 2019.
The infection can be transmitted among creatures and individuals. Normal indications of contamination incorporate respiratory side effects, fever, hack, brevity of breath and breathing troubles. In progressively serious cases, disease can cause pneumonia, extreme intense respiratory disorder, kidney disappointment and even passing.
Will the coronavirus spread through hack?

Individuals can contract the infection from others. The sickness can spread from individual to individual through little beads from the nose or mouth which are spread when an individual hacks or breathes out...READ MORE

China quarantines cities to curb virus, but WHO says no global emergency

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China secured approximately 20 million individuals at the focal point of a dangerous infection flare-up on Thursday, yet the World Health Organization said the ailment didn't yet comprise a worldwide wellbeing crisis.
The respiratory infection has guaranteed 18 lives since rising up out of a fish and creature advertise in the focal city of Wuhan, tainted many others and been recognized as far away as the United States. The new infection has caused caution in light of its likeness to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which slaughtered about 650 individuals across territory China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.
Be that as it may, following two days of converses with decide the degree of worldwide concern, the World Health Organization on Thursday avoided announcing an alleged general wellbeing crisis of global concern—affirmation utilized for the gravest pandemics. "This is a crisis in China, yet it has not yet become a worldwide wellbeing crisis," WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva.
WHO had delayed its choice by a day, after Chinese specialists reported extraordinary measures to get control over the spread of the infection.
Urban areas isolated

China has adequately isolated almost 20 million individuals across Wuhan and different urban areas, and declared measures to control the ailment across the country as a huge number of individuals started traversing the nation this week for the Lunar New Year occasion. Beijing dropped huge social occasions that typically pull in crowds at sanctuaries during the New Year occasion, while the noteworthy Forbidden City will close from Saturday....Read More