Covid-19 Outbreak Discussion 2022

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Introduction
Coronaviruses are a group of similar category of viruses that cause diseases among the
mammals and birds. Certain respiratory tract infections might be found in humans that might
range between mild illnesses to lethal. Illnesses like common cold, flu can cause through
SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 (Sohrabi et al. 2020). Therefore, the discussion will hold a
purposive message towards developing an idea on the necessary steps and approaches that might
be considered for minimizing the impact of COVID-19.
Discussion
The virus was first discovered in the year 1930 through an acute respiratory infection of
the domesticated chicken which later was later found among humans in the year 1960 and was
named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43 (Lee 2020). The evolution of the
viruses continued over the years. The current coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, is a cousin
of SARS and has been spreading widely over the different regions of the world. However, Leo
Poon, the scientist who first decoded the virus, stated that it would only attribute to 10% fatality
(Lai et al. 2020). The higher contamination of the virus is specifically based on the lower
awareness among the people and the increased resistance of the virus over any antibiotics. It has
been observed that the absence of awareness among the people towards following the safety
norms like covering the face while sneezing or coughing and remaining in quarantine has
influenced the growing contamination level. Again, there are different other beliefs on the
Chinese Coronavirus which relates to the fact that they are mutilated or human made. However,
most of what is being developed is based on assumptions without sufficient evidence. The
indestructibility or the high contamination of the virus is noticed even in SARS contributing to
significant effects on the health and wellbeing of the people who are affected. According to a

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report, the Novel Coronavirus is mild among 80% of the people, severe in 13% and critical or
lethal for 6% of the people with other diseases like diabetes or cardiac concerns (Thienemann et
al. 2020). The lack of awareness among the people has increased the positive cases and death
tolls among the communities. It has been observed that more than 141,000 people could not
survive the pandemic and around 2.1 million infections have been confirmed around the world
(Adhikari et al. 2020). The absence of adequate awareness among the people and cooperation
towards following the quarantine method has specifically contributed to the growing number of
contamination in the different nations. Most of the individuals perceived the virus as a common
flu and declined the need of following the necessary measures which added to the increased
cases of Covid-19.
Quarantine or isolation is essentially the best suited activity that might be considered by
the people with the purpose of limiting the contamination rates. However, the insufficient
awareness or absence of cooperation among the people in the different regions has significantly
influenced the increased rates of positive cases of coronavirus. Boldog (2020) stated that the
practices like washing hands or maintaining safety distance from the infected might contribute to
the minimization of positive cases. The collaboration among the people towards minimizing the
chances of contamination through the quarantine approach would significantly support in
reducing the contamination rates among the people and communities. The contamination through
the virus is being divided into three significant stages and different media channels have taken
the initiative of making the people aware of the different activities that the communities and
people are required to perform. Rothan and Byrareddy (2020) observed that the development of
sanitation based practices would act efficiently towards minimizing the rate of contamination
among the communities. However, Guo et al. (2020) observed that even maintenance of