COVID-19 Pandemic





COVID-19 pandemic also known as the corona virus, it is an ongoing pandemic. It severely affects the respiratory system which mostly leads to death. The outbreak of this virus was identified in Wuhan China in December 2019. World health organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30th January 2020, and a pandemic on 11th march 2020.

According to Wikipedia, as of May 2020 more than 3 billion cases have been reported in over 187 countries and territories, more than 269,000 deaths have been confirmed and about 1.28 million people have recovered. According to official reports, the largest numbers of confirmed cases are in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France.

The virus primarily spreads between people with close contact through small droplets by coughing sneezing and talking.

At the moment, many countries have taken measures, some of them strict — to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. While some of these countries are now considering whether to ease the measures, others have already decided to keep them in place over the days ahead.

Educational institutes such as, schools, colleges and universities have been closed either national wide or local wide, because of this most of the student population were badly affected.

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