The new form of the coronavirus dubbed 2019-nCoV has killed over 400 people since late last year.
The WHO"advises people of all ages to take steps to protect themselves from the virus, for example by following good hand hygiene and good respiratory hygiene."with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub, and keeping up to 1 metre from other people"particularly those who are coughing, sneezing and have a fever."
As with any contagious respiratory condition, those who are sick should cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing with a tissue or their flexed elbow. Tissues should be disposed of immediately, and hands cleaned. 2019-nCoV first came to the attention of health officials late last year, when workers at a wholesale seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, started to fall ill.—all but two in mainland China—in over 20,000 cases. The virus has now spread to over 20 countries, including the U.S., Thailand, South Korea, Australia, Vietnam, France, the United Arab Emirates, and India. There have been no cases reported in Africa or South America.
As scientists and healthcare workers are still learning about the new virus as each day passes there are no specific treatments for the condition. As the bug is a virus, antibiotics—which kill bacteria—therefore don't work to prevent or treat it, the WHOInstead, a patient's symptoms must be managed, and those with a severe illness may need hospital treatment.a fever, a cough, and shortness of breath, which may appear between two or 14 days after a person is exposed, the U.S.
Security staff check the temperature of a student entering a university, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grows, on February 3, 2020 in Manila, Philippines.
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