Covid 19

 COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new element of coronavirus. CO stands for Corona, VI stands for Virus and D stands for disease. This disease was referred to as 2019 novel coronavirus. An outbreak of the novel coronavirus was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The virus is primarily transmitted from person to person. When an infected person cough, sneezes, or exhales, droplets are expelled and can land in another person’s nose and mouth and are inhaled into the lungs. The virus can be transmitted by an infected person without showing symptoms of illness. When a person touches an infected surface and then touches mouth, nose or eyes he is infected with coronavirus. Common symptoms of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties, repeated shaking, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and lose of sense of taste or smell. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Elderly people with high blood pressure, heart or lung disease, cancer or diabetes, appear to be more prone to severe illness. COVID-19 has spread around the world like pandemic. The pandemic is moving like a wave. Million of people around the globe die of COVID-19. Countries are racing to slow the spread of the disease by testing and tarting patients., quarantining citizens, cancelling large gathering, shutting educational institutions and making people aware of health rules. COVID-19 has already created social, economic and political crises across the world. Recently another deadly variant  of coronavirus named omicron has been detected and  is spreading its claw all over the world especially in the European countries. Though its symptoms and effect is a bit influenza like, yet we have to be alert to keep us free from this virus. It is needless to mention that effective vaccine has been introduced against this virus. But it is not cent percent effective. So, we all should maintain the rules of health as well as hygiene to keep us well. Our government has already taken some pragmatic initiatives so as not to spread this deadly virus. 

Prepared by Noor E Alam

University of Dhaka