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How does the Coronavirus affect our community?
CoV (coronavirus) are viruses that can cause disease in the respiratory tract & gastrointestinal tract. Coronavirus not only affects humans, but other vertebrates also. We have discovered them as pathogens since 1960. Scientists & health authorities are trying to stop the expanding disease, yet the daily death count due to the illness is rising day by day. WHO has already declared the condition an emergency international concern affecting public health. The main problem faced are that we still don't have important details about the virus, its origin & spread. China is suffering some serious concern due to the outbreak because the number of people infected with the virus is rising & it is predicted that 39,000 people could be infected in the Wuhan only. The situation is out of control since the virus has spread too far from where it started. But the control measures against the virus has already begun, so there could be some relief. When the virus keeps on spreading through a community, the condition is endemic. If our efforts to contain the virus fail, the probability of that it would become endemic is high. This indicates that in that community, death due to the coronavirus is going to happen annually because virus is circulating. This is why developing a vaccine against the virus is crucial.
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