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Coronavirus: What are the symptoms and how to protect yourself?

What are the symptoms?


Scientist confirm that coronavirus needs about five days in average for the symptoms to appear .It
starts with fever and followed by dry cough, and around a week later the victim will feel shortness in
breath which calls for treatment in the hospital.

The symptoms rarely came as sneeze or runny nose, but the appearance of these symptoms doesn’t
necessarily mean that you have the disease because it has similar symptoms with other kind of
viruses like cold and flu.

The most people who are suspectable to infection are old people and the people with pre-existing
disease like asthma, diabetes and heart problem .

How do I protect myself from the infection?


The World Health Organization explain that washing hands regularly is an important way to avoid
the infected with the disease. To be exact no one yet know how the virus spread from person to
another. Regardless that the similar viruses spread through the spray when an infected person
sneeze or cough.

The World Health Organization recommends the following instruction:


1- Wash your hands well because the soap can kill the virus.
2- Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze and wash your hands after that to
prevent spreading the virus.
3- Avoid touching the eyes, nose and mouth if your hands touched a surface that the virus is
likely exist on it, because the virus can be transmitted to the body in this way.
4- Don’t get close to the people with sneezing, coughing or fever, and preferably stay away
from them for a meter.

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