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According to World Health Organization (WHO), Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. People infected with the COVID-19 virus experiences mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more vulnerable.

At this moment, there are no vaccines or treatment for COVID-19. However, there are many ongoing trials evaluating potential treatments.

Coronavirus symptoms

NHS defines coronavirus symptoms as [Read more…]

• a high temperature – you feel hot to touch on your chest or back
• a new, continuous cough – coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours

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What is Self-isolation

If your symptoms are mild, you’ll advised to not leave your home for at least 7 days.

Anyone you live with should not leave your home for 14 days. because it can take 14 days for symptoms to appear.

Staying at home. This is called self-isolation

To protect others, you must stay at home if you or someone you live with has symptoms of coronavirus.

• do not leave your home for any reason – if you need food or medicine, order it online or by phone, or ask someone to deliver it to your home
• do not have visitors in your home – including friends and family
• do any exercise at home – you can use your garden, if you have one

If you have symptoms of coronavirus, self-isolate for 7 days.

After 7 days, if you still have a high temperature, keep self-isolating until your temperature returns to normal

How can we all together reduce the spread of this virus?

• wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds
• if soap and water are not available, use hand sanitiser gel
• wear a mask and disposable gloves when you go out for a walk or grocery
• After shopping, when you arrive home, wash the entire product you have bought, eg, milk, juice, drinks, tinned items, packed items like snakes. Use mild soaped water to wash them
• Use contactless card payment where possible for your buying, avoid cash payment, if you are paying by cash try to give the exact money, avoid touching the change given back to you
• when you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue, handkerchief or your sleeve. Do not use your hands. Put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands thoroughly
• clean objects like kettle, phones, keyboard, and surfaces like door handle, stair banister, dinning table, chairs, kitchen and bathroom taps you touch often. Use your normal cleaning products
• If you are using a shared bathroom, clean it by wiping the surfaces you have touched each time you use it
• do not share your mask, gloves, towels, including hand towels or tea towels and  handkerchief
• do not share your umbrella, shoes,

Coronavirus vaccine development?

The UK is at the front to find a Coronavirus vaccine at  University of Oxford, and at Imperial Imperial researchers working on a vaccine for COVID-19 have been awarded funding to take the work forward towards human trials [Read more…]

On April 23, a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed at the University of oxford began human trials.[Read more…]

Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial could have early results by mid-June

New partnership with drug giant will allow for global distribution of the vaccination – if it proves effective[Read more…]

Britishish firm GSK and French multinational Sanofi announced the collaboration in the hope of providing long-lasting immunity to Covid-19 cheaply and on a mass scale. [Read more…]

Italian researchers claim to have developed, world’s first coronavirus vaccine

Italian researchers claim to have developed a vaccine that can neutralise the coronavirus in human cells. [Read more…]

Coronavirus: 99% confident that COVID-19 vaccine will work, says Chinese firm

Sinovac, a Beijing-based biotech company, currently has its coronavirus vaccine in stage 2 trials, with more than 1,000 volunteers participating. Sky News is the first British broadcaster to visit its labs. [Read more…]

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