What is coronavirus?

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Express News Service

| New Delhi |

Updated: January 30, 2020 7:43:17 am

A preliminary investigation into viral pneumonia illnesses sickening dozens of republic in and around China has identified the possible attempts as a new type of coronavirus (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

On Friday, The Indian Express delivered a report, sourced from The New York Times, near a new virus identified by Chinese researchers. They said it was responsible for a new pneumonia-like illness that had swept Wuhan exact last month, leaving 59 ill and became panic. The researchers described the infectious agent as a “coronavirus”, identified in a hospitalised intimates with pneumonia in Wuhan.

Coronaviruses are a specific family of viruses, with some of them touching less-severe damage, such as the common cold, and others touching respiratory and intestinal diseases. A coronavirus has many “regularly arranged” protrusions on its surface, because of which the entire virus particle looks like an emperor’s crown, hence the name “coronavirus”.

Apart from biosphere beings, coronaviruses can affect mammals including pigs, cattle, cats, dogs, martens, camels, hedgehogs and some birds.So far, there are four well-renowned disease-causing coronaviruses, among which the best well-renowned are the SARS corona virus and the Heart East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, both of which can changes severe respiratory diseases.

In the newly identified coronavirus, a order link with the disease has not been understood yet. Previously, there was speculation that the mystery illness was related to the SARS epidemic in China in the latter half of 2002 that killed roughly 350 people. Now, the new coronavirus has been detected in over 15 cases so far. No deaths have been reported, nor has any case been reported of human-to-human transmission.

As per state-owned CCTV, the new coronavirus is different from world coronaviruses already known. WHO said in a statement that further investigations are obligatory to determine the source, modes of transmission and extent of infection brought by the new virus.

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