Real Issues: COVID – 19

The visitor affects its host negatively in different ways and differently.  Most host develop mild to moderate symptom like fever, tiredness, dry cough.  Others experience aches and pains, nasal congestion, running nose, sore throat and diarrhea.  Severe symptoms of this visitor on its host are high fever, pneumonia, kidney failure and death.

Symptoms

This visitor reveals certain symptoms as pointers of its being resident in its host on an average of five to six days with common symptoms such as high temperature, cough, shortness of breath or breathing difficulties and body aches/muscle pain on an average but however, it reveals its true nature on the fourteenth day.

This strange visitor goes about by mode of transmission either by coughs or sneezes from a host or by touching contaminated objects.  The good news is that this strange visitor can be prevented by constant washing of hands, wearing of face mask, mass testing, quarantine or social distancing.

The measures for preventing this strange visitor possess lots of difficulties on man which is its host as man naturally is used to relating with others in several ways on a daily basis. Thus Presidents, prime ministers, governors of different countries and states brought forth measures to curtail the spread of this unwanted strange visitor.  The measure brought about the now popular term called lockdown.  The lockdown is such that it lead to shutting down of business, Churches, Mosques, … Except essential services.  The said lockdown is such that it has affected the economy of the various countries.