What You Need To Know About COVID-19

COVID-19 is a newly discovered virus from the family of viruses known as Coronavirus.

Corona means crown. This refers to the way that the virus looks under the microscope. They appear to have spikes on their surface that look like crowns.

The virus is believed to have been first transmitted from animals to humans in a seafood market in Wuhan Province of China.

The virus is transmitted from human to human through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.

Persons infected with the virus exhibit the following symptoms;
Fever
Sour Throat
Cough
Shortness of breath

The virus has an incubation period of 2 to 14 days. This means that an infected person may not show any sign of infection within this period.

There is presently no known cure or vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19