Three core symptoms of novel #coronavirus are (a) high fever, (b) breathlessness and (c) severe dry cough. If you have just cough without fever and breathlessness, you may be suffering from seasonal flu and not #COVID19. Coronavirus is more chest and less throat. #DigitalIndia 
If you have all the three symptoms together and simultaneously, there are high chances that you may have caught novel #coronavirus or #COVID19. Approach a qualified doctor or designated hospital urgently.
Novel #coronavirus or #COVID19 may start as a regular cough or cold but it would soon start affecting your lungs and other vital organs. In some cases, it may have gastrointestinal effects too and in that cases diarrhea and liver and kidney failure may be there in serious cases.
There is no cure for novel #coronavirus or #COVID19 as on date and it may still take around one and half year before a possible cure can be found. Remdesivir (for Ebola) and Anti HIV drugs (for AIDS) drugs are currently used by many doctors and nations to cure coronavirus. @_PTLB
@_PTLB Novel coronavirus is highly contagious and has a fatal mortality rates though the rate varies from country to country. What make the novel coronavirus very dangerous is the fact that it has an incubation period longer than a month and it is asymptomatic too. It spreads like fire
@_PTLB Cases around the world have proved that novel coronavirus can spread through community and that is why the traditional lock down and quarantine methods are not effective. An asymptomatic patient can infect many more without even knowing that he is doing so.
@_PTLB Some reports have classified infection spreading patients into a spreader and super spreaders. Why a person becomes a super spreader is still not clear but a super spreader can infect many people at the same time.
@_PTLB Some people have categorised the vulnerable population and non vulnerable population based on age groups. In my personal opinion, novel #coronavirus affects all equally. Entire global population can be infected but people with strong immune systems may survive this onslaught.
@_PTLB Many young doctors and nurses have succumbed to #coronavirus and if they can be killed by it, children and young population are equally vulnerable. A responsive healthcare system and well prepared govt are the decisive factors and not age.
@_PTLB The response of govts around the world are inadequate and undesirable except Australia, Singapore and South Korea. India and U.S. have handled the situation very poorly and have risked their population while U.K and some other countries have taken a middle path. #DigitalIndia
@_PTLB While Singapore and South Korea are transparent and sharing correct info and fact yet Australia has scored well on the front of disaster management too. Australia has maintained a medical stock that could handle this pandemic for months but it has to manage economic aspects now.
@_PTLB Do not depend upon climate too much to fight the battle against novel #coronavirus. You cannot leave a pandemic at the mercy of climate and irrespective of warm or cold climate, #COVID19 would keep on infecting global population.
@_PTLB Two facts give me shivering up to my spine. The first is that cured and discharged patients of novel #coranavirus still remain carriers of the virus. Such patients were tested positive again after discharge and that is worst than the initial virus as it may mutate and be stronger
@_PTLB Second fact is that novel #coronavirus is fatal if it reinfects the same patient. In such cases it results in immediate and multi organ failures in patients. So the moment second wave of #COVID19 would strike, it would be an endgame for a big global population. It may strike soon
@_PTLB So instead of celebrating "victory" by China it must expedite its efforts to find a cure keeping in mind that the novel #coronavirus may emerge stronger if we leave patients poorly treated or if the treatment results in temporary cure. Virus would take it revenge without mercy.
#Coronavirus has mutated into two strains, one which appears to be far more aggressive, scientists have said, in a discovery which could hinder attempts to develop a vaccine .
#Coronavirus has mutated into two strains, one which appears to be far more aggressive, scientists have said, in a discovery which could hinder attempts to develop a vaccine .
