essay on coronavirus
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Sixteen years ago, the SARS pandemic was ravaging mainland China and spreading beyond the border to cause global catastrophe. Now we have a SARS cousin, the novel coronavirus (2019 n-Cov). As of January 31, according to the National Health Commission, there were 9,720 confirmed cases and 15,238 suspected cases in China; 213 people have died, and 175 have recovered. The majority of the cases are in Hubei Province. On January 30, the WHO (World Health Organization) decided that the epidemic of 2019 n-Cov is a public health emergency of international concern, based on the increase of confirmed cases in the countries and regions outside China.
There are many scientific questions, including whether the virus came from the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan or elsewhere. And there are ethical questions about the response to the spreading virus.
In an interview on CCTV with Dr. Feng Zijian, the deputy director of China’s Centers for Disease Control, the anchorman asked a question that all Chinese people want the answer to: what is causing the rapid increase in confirmed cases? The first case was reported on December 8, 2019, and it took more than 40 days to surpass the 500th case; there were 571 cases on January 22. Just two days later, there were 1,000 cases. By January 27 there were more than 2,800 confirmed cases. The news anchor asked, “What do you think of the rapid change in the data? What does it mean?”
Dr. Feng said that the transmission capacity of the new virus is stronger than that of SARS. He attributed the rapid spread of the virus during this period to the Spring Festival (January 25-February 2), when as many as 3 billion people travel and can be exposed to, and transmit, the virus. However, we argue that other factors made the growth in cases plateau before January 17 and rise sharply afterward.
Lack of Transparency
In the efforts to control the epidemic, transparency is a key principle to let citizens know how to protect themselves and to let medical and public health personnel know which effective and appropriate interventions should be taken. Now, the National Health Commission updates data on the epidemic every day. There are timely briefings at press conferences in Beijing and other cities to report the updated information on the spread of the virus and interviews with epidemic experts on TV. It is good that the ethical principle of transparency is being followed now. However, there was a lack of transparency earlier in January.
On January 28, a special report titled “The Puzzle of No New Case for 12 Days after 6 January,” published in the online journal YiMagazine, said that, strangely enough, from January 11 to 16, the number of confirmed cases in Wuhan remained unchanged at 41. The lack of reported new cases raised the suspicion that true information was being hidden, and that the public was misled and missed the opportunity to control the spread of the virus.
The author reported that two meetings were held in Wuhan: the Hubei Provincial People’s Congress on January 7 to 10 and the Political Consultation Conference on January 11 to 17. This is the time to sing the praise of the government’s achievement, not to deal with problems and expose mistakes. Hubei Daily published a special report with 12 pages to praise the province’s achievement. In the lower corner of the last page, there was information on the epidemic issued by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission. During this period, information on the epidemic was not reported every day, and there was no report from January 6 to January 9. The Wuhan Health Commission’s notifications made only the following points: All patients were receiving isolation treatment in medical institutions, no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission was found, and no medical staff members were infected.
On January 21 and 23, Hubei provincial and Wuhan municipal authorities organized largescale gatherings and artist performances to celebrate the Spring Festival, with the presence of the leaders of Hubei Province and city of Wuhan These activities conveyed a misleading message to the public that the epidemic was not a serious problem.
The omission of updates on the epidemic and faked, misleading information shifted the public’s attention from the epidemic and inhibited the efforts by medical and public health staff to control it. This is a case in which public health intervention was devastatingly compromised by the politics. It violated Article 37 of the Law on Infectious Diseases, which stipulates that the relevant departments of the people’s government shall not conceal, make false reports, or delay the report of the epidemic situation of infectious diseases. The provincial officials should be legally liable
Answer:
1)Corona virus is originated from China
2)It is a deadly virus.
3)It is a second version of SARS( Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus.
4)It has caused 700 deaths in China
5)It is a fastly spreading viral disease
6)There were many cases of this virus
in India
7)This virus had brought down the economic status of china and brought down the stock market.
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