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

Coronavirus scare forces cancellation of Mobile World Congress in Spain

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Coordinators of the world's greatest versatile innovation reasonable are reassessing over stresses over the viral episode from China. GSMA said Wednesday that the current year's release of Mobile World Congress will never again be held as arranged in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb 24-27.
John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA, said "worldwide concern in regards to the coronavirus episode, travel concern and different conditions, make it unthinkable for the GSMA to hold the occasion." The choice comes after many tech organizations and remote transporters dropped out, with the most recent cancelations by Nokia, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Britain's BT on Wednesday. Other huge names that have just dropped out incorporate Ericsson, Nokia, Sony, Amazon, Intel and LG. The organizations refered to worries for the security of staff and guests.
Coordinators had looked to hold out against developing strain to drop Mobile World Congress, a yearly tech party that had been required to draw in excess of 100,000 guests from around 200 nations, including 5,000 to 6,000 from China.
The GSMA, the remote exchange body that arranges the reasonable, had said it was observing the infection circumstance intently, incorporating meeting normally with worldwide and Spanish wellbeing specialists and its accomplices to guarantee the prosperity of participants.

Nokia said Wednesday it had chosen to pull back from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain "after a full appraisal of the dangers identified with a quick moving circumstance." The organization said "the wellbeing and prosperity of workers was an essential center" and that dropping its association was a "judicious choice." Phone organization Vodafone said it was dropping out "after cautious thought" while Britain's BT said dropping was "the most mindful choice."...READ MORE

Coronavirus: Death toll at 361, confirmed cases soars to over 17200

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The loss of life in China's coronavirus scourge taken off to 361 with 57 passings on Sunday alone while the quantity of affirmed cases moved to 17,205, Chinese wellbeing authorities reported on Monday.
China's National Health Commission in its day by day report on Monday said that 2,829 new instances of coronavirus were accounted for across the nation on February 2, taking the absolute number of disease to 17,205.
The loss of life rose to 361 with 57 passings gave an account of Sunday, state-run Xinhua cited the commission's report as saying. Among Sunday's demises, 56 were accounted for from Hubei Province, the focal point of the infection episode, and one from southwest China's Chongqing, the bonus said.
All out 5,173 new presumed cases were accounted for on Sunday, it said.
The general affirmed cases on the Chinese terrain arrived at 17,205 before the finish of Sunday. Additionally on Sunday, 186 patients turned out to be truly sick, and 147 individuals were released from emergency clinic after recuperation. The commission said 2,296 patients stayed torn up pretty bad and 21,558 individuals were associated with being contaminated with the infection.

An aggregate of 475 individuals had been released from medical clinic after recuperation. The commission said 1,89,583 close contacts had been followed, including that among them, 10,055 were released from medicinal perception on Sunday, with 1,52,700 others still under restorative perception. Before the finish of Sunday, 15 affirmed cases had been accounted for in Hong Kong and eight in the Macao SAR and 10 in Taiwan it said. In the interim, China is set to open a 1000-bed stopgap emergency clinic worked in record 10 days at Wuhan, the focal point of the infection flare-up in focal China's Hubei Province.....READ MORE

Coronavirus: China toll soars to 213, WHO declares world health emergency

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The loss of life in China's epic coronavirus flare-up has move to 213 with the quantity of affirmed cases totalling to 9,692, China's national specialists declared on Friday.
Hubei territory, the focal point of the flare-up, detailed 5,806 affirmed cases, including 204 passings, official media announced. A sum of 213 individuals have kicked the bucket of the sickness as of Thursday, state-run Xinhua news organization revealed. Chinese wellbeing specialists declared that 9,692 affirmed instances of pneumonia brought about by the novel coronavirus had been accounted for in 31 commonplace level districts and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps before the finish of Thursday.
Around 20 nations, including India, have revealed affirmed instances of the infection in explorers originating from China. China said it has full certainty and ability to win the battle against the pandemic.
The WHO has pronounced the novel coronavirus episode a worldwide wellbeing crisis. The UN wellbeing organization on Friday announced a worldwide crisis over the lethal novel coronavirus from China - a once in a while utilized assignment that could prompt improved universal co-appointment in handling the sickness. "Our most noteworthy concern is the potential for the infection to spread to nations with more fragile wellbeing frameworks," World Health Organization (WHO) boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he declared the infection as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

Responding to the declaration, Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Hua Chunying in a press explanation stated, "Since the flare-up of the novel coronavirus scourge, the Chinese government has been taking the most thorough and thorough anticipation and control measures with a high awareness of other's expectations for individuals' wellbeing." Many of these measures work out in a good way past the necessities of the International...READ MORE