- If you have the symptoms of fever and cough along with it, if you have breathing difficulty too, then seek medical help as only health care officials can provide the best treatment so that the virus does not spread to any other people.
One of the biggest epidemics of this era is Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which has shaken the world in a way that everyone is afraid of this deadly disease. It’s normal to be scared about this novel coronavirus COVID-19, whether you are a parent, adult, child or teenager or anyone. Here’s what you must know about COVID-19 so that you can keep yourself and your loved one protected from this novel disease.
What is Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)?
Coronaviruses are one of the viruses, from a large family of the viruses, responsible for causing illness in the animals as well as humans. These illnesses can be as minor as the common cold and as major as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
Symptoms of COVID-19
High fever, tiredness, along with dry cough, are the most common symptoms of COVID-19 found in the patient body. They are also symptoms such as aches and pains, nasal congestion, running nose, sore throat or diarrhea that you can find in infected people.
Who Are at Risk?
An older person is known to have a weak immune system and COVID-19 targets body with weak fighting abilities. Moreover, a person with preexisting medical conditions suffering from high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, cancer or Diabetes likely to develop severe illness more often than others.
How to Protect Ourselves From COVID-19?
The protection measures that one can take to protect themselves from getting COVID-19 are listed below:
- You should regularly wash your hands with water and soap or can use alcohol-based hand sanitizers as they can kill the viruses present on your hand.
- You also need to maintain at least 1-meter distance from the person who is sick or is coughing and sneezing because you do not want to breathe in or get in contact with the small liquid droplets that come out from their mouth and nose while sneezing.
If you have recently visited any place where there was an outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), then you should take measures mentioned above along with it to follow a few more protection measures: