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What is Social Distancing? This is keeping your distance from another person. Social distancing should be practiced by everyone infected or not infected. Social Distancing includes: Avoiding Handshakes Avoiding Crowds Keeping at least 2meters away from people while outside Last but not least staying at home. What is Isolation? This is to stop the infected people to spread the virus to healthy people. Isolation means completely staying away from other people only your caretaker can see provided that they have personal protective equipment. There is a special wing for that in many modern hospitals. This can be done for at least 14 days in the case of COVID-19 infection or until it is confirmed that you are completely free of the virus. What is Quarantine? This is a lot like Isolation but for a group of people. And it is a preventive method. Quarantine is used when a group of people is suspected of being exposed. By restricting their movement we can decrea

Does the new coronavirus(COVID-19) affect animals? The answer is yes. Animals can get infected with a virus. Some researches are suggesting that cats and dogs can get infected by the virus. A research conducted in china stated that a dog has tested positive after remaining with its owners who were sick with the virus. However, the dog wasn't showing any symptoms of the illness. Currently, there is no evidence that the virus can be spread through dogs. There is some interesting news that a tiger in the Bronx zoo in New York has tested positive. The tiger was tested after it fell ill along with six other tigers and lions. This definitely can shed some light on whether or not animals could get infected with the coronavirus.  The best way to protect yourself and your pets from getting infected is prevention . Restricting any contact with infected pets or persons is the best way to keep yourself and your pets safe. To get a more in-depth view on the topic visit: Co

The virus initially enters our body through inhaling microdroplets or inoculating ourselves by our contaminated hands. Then the virus first attaches to our throat after that the virus multiplies and migrates to the lower part of the respiratory system like our lungs.  Our immune system tries to fight the virus off causing fever and headache.  In severe cases the virus causes lung inflammation making breathing difficult, this is what causes the dry cough. in some severe cases, the virus causes enough damage to the lung that our lungs fill up with fluid causing pneumonia. For more information visit:  What Does Coronavirus Do to Your Body? And here is a short video to elaborate more:

COVID-19? The flu? Or a common cold?  It's easy to confuse the symptoms of the common cold and flu with the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection.  Also, the symptoms of the newly found RNA virus COVID-19 are a lot like the flu or common cold there are some differences to identify whether that cough is coronavirus or just the  flu.  Common cold  Colds are a mild upper respiratory illness with a runny, stuffy nose without a  fever . Doctors mainly diagnose colds using clinical observation and medical history. No tests are necessary. Its caused by a wide variety of viruses. The flu I nfluenza (flu) can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Flu is different from a cold. Flu usually comes on suddenly. Caused by the influenza virus.

COVID-19(coronavirus) What is a coronavirus and where did it come from? Coronavirus is a positive single-stranded RNA virus. Its name came from a Latin word corona meaning "crown". It is an encapsulated virus and helical virus. In most cases, it causes milder symptoms in patients like the common cold.  The newly found coronavirus(COVID-19) is a different type of strand that has never been seen before. It was first discovered in Wuhan, China. The first case dates back to Nov 17, 2019. It is a respiratory illness so it is transmitted through microdroplets from coughing or sneezing. In addition to that, the virus can stay in on materials like metal, windows, doors, etc for more than 24 hours or more. So that is the reason it's spreading too rapidly throughout the world and caused a pandemic. What are the symptoms of COVID-19 So the symptoms of coronavirus can range from mild to severe.  The milder symptoms of coronavirus are: Cough Fever Head