Corona Awareness

Covid – 19 also known as Novel Corona Virus is an infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another through respiratory droplets. It is because of this, many leading News Companies have it written in their fore front of their channel as well in the first page of the paper written about it everyday.

Discovered in the city of Wuhan in China on 1^st December 2019, the Novel Corona Virus is a set of the viral genome whose RNA molecule represents nearly similar to that of the SARS virus of 2003. It is because of this it has also been given the name of SARS-CoV-2. Upon it’s discovery doctors of the country have informed it to the WHO and as over time on second week of March 2020 the Novel Corona Virus have been officially declared by them to be a Pandemic Disease. Meaning that it can be transmitted quickly from country to country, it not taken precautions at the earliest.

Due to this many higher authorities as well as governments of many both infected as well as non infected countries have taken the responsibility to stop the spread of this virus as well as build up the awareness about this virus more to the common people. It is with this initiative, Ruby Park Public Schoolsupports our Indian governments plans and programs to stop the infection as well as would like to spread our students about the viral infection and ways to curb the spread rate.

About the Virus:-

·         Corona Virus is a part of the viral family which has a certain set of RNA instructions and can only survive if the air for one hour the most. In cardboard it can survive fir one day and in metal objects for a maximum of three weeks.

·         With the epicentre in the start being China, the country has taken many steps in order to curb the spread of the disease to which today the country is slowly recovering itself from the disease. However as time passed by the epicentre has not been shifted to Italy and later Europe.

·         Though not curable, however to stop the spread of the disease is highly possible by isolating people and avoiding them to go to public places daily.

Symptoms of the Virus:-

·         People who have caught the virus generally do not tend to show the symptoms of disease till 14 days on a maximum and 5-6 days on an average. After which, common symptoms of the disease is high Fever, Sore Throat and on rare cases headaches.

·         Corona Virus attacks certain type of T-Cells that generally resides in the lungs of your body. Which makes it difficult for people to breathe causing shortness in breath.

·         This viral fever does not cause death to a person directly but rather indirectly mostly through pneumonia. As the patients immunity cells become less number in count which makes it easy for other disease to affect your body.

Preventions:-

·         Although no cure has been found many doctors have said that to tackle this disease can be done but if followed the certain important steps which should be followed extremely.

·         Wash your hands regularly. Washing your hands regularly with soap especially annihilates the virus. It destroys the outer cover of the viral body making it’s inner parts of the cell to be vulnerable to the outside. While washing your hands with soap, it should be done for 20 seconds that is singing Happy Birthday to you twice. Even Sanitizers will do as the alcohol content works the same principle as that of a soap. However it is soap is more preferable than a sanitizer.

·         With washing of hands, keep yourself clean. Clean your clothes and well as have a bath daily. As these viruses can last for one hour in the air to three days on the surface of metallic objects, it makes it important for people now to clean your self clean as what our teachers in elementary school teaches to the children.

·         Social Distancing is one another approach followed by governments of many other country. As the disease can be spread out to many people through respiratory droplets while talking also. This makes it compulsory to distance your socializing. Reduce going out unless necessary to go for purchasing important things, like food, medicines, household utilities.

·         While coughing or sneezing, cover your mouth with hand or elbow the best. As this would reduce the chance of spreading the disease from one person to another. Wearing specialised mask like 3M, N95 or the N99 is highly prescribed by doctors as well as medical practitioners.

To tackle the Corona Virus disease are being followed by many countries in the world including India. And we at Ruby Park Public School supports this initiative. For us, the health of students is extremely important and with limited medical facilities we are following governments protocols to shut school activities until further notice from the government. We advise you and your parents to be healthy, stay safe and if necessary go out only if needed for household or important commercial work.