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Basic protections: Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus

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Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak, available on the WHO website and through your national and local public health authority. Most people who become infected experience mild illness and recover, but it can be more severe for others. Take care of your health and protect others by doing the following: Maintain social distancing Maintain at least 1 metre (3 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Why? When someone coughs or sneezes they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets, including the COVID-19 virus if the person coughing has the disease. Wash your hands frequently Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Why? Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub kills viruses that may be on your hands

A Small Business Survival Plan for Dealing With the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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It’s safe to say that this current crisis is like none other faced by small business owners in the recent past, and it’s certainly daunting trying to tackle all of the unique issues it presents. Regrettably, the predominant voice we hear hasn't offered a lot of specific steps to take or advice on how to save our business, let along come out on top. Below are 10 issues to address with detailed considerations and action items that might make the difference in being able to keep your doors open and calm your employees and customers. 1. Immediate financial triage. The greatest concern for most business owners, at least initially, is how am I going to pay my bills this week, next week, and how long will this last. Of course, this is a very difficult question to answer and moreover, most business owners are facing a reduction of business owners. Here are some important steps to take on the financial front as soon as possible: Create a cash-flow budget listing with fixed ver

Small Businesses Need to Survive the Coronavirus Crisis

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   As State governments issue shelter-in-place orders, asking residents to remain home for all but essential errands, businesses - especially small local businesses - across the U.S. are facing difficult decisions. These institutions are crucial to our nation’s economy, employing 59 million people in the United States, or about 47.5% of the total private sector workforce. Their GDP contribution measured $5.9 trillion in 2014, the most recent year for which small business GDP data is available. The company, FASTSIGNS International, is included in these measures. We are a franchise brand with individual units owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. Businesses like ours support other businesses and organizations by providing signage and visual graphics for conferences, trade shows, events, point of purchase displays, and promotional advertisements. Suddenly - but understandably - demand for these services has dropped. Our business isn’t alone. I am also the chair of the Internationa

Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should I call a doctor?

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What are the symptoms caused by the Covid-19 virus, how does it spread, and should you see a doctor? According to the WHO, the most common symptoms of Covid-19 are fever, tiredness and a dry cough. Some patients may also have a runny nose, sore throat, nasal congestion and aches and pains or diarrhoea. About 80% of people who get Covid-19 experience a mild case – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment. About one in six people, the WHO says, become seriously ill. The elderly and people with underlying medical problems like high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes, or chronic respiratory conditions, are at a greater risk of serious illness from Covid-19. In the UK, the National health Service (NHS) has identified the specific symptoms to look for as experiencing either: A high temperature - you feel hot to touch on your chest or back A new continuous cough - this means you’ve started coughing repeatedly As th

Hantavirus: Man dies from hantavirus on bus in China, other passengers tested positive

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A man from China’s Yunnan Province, who tested positive for hantavirus, died on a chartered bus on Monday even as the coronavirus outbreak has overtaken the entire world. The Epicentre of Covid-19 a disease that coronavirus causes is also said to be China. The first cases of Covid-19 were spotted in the wet city of Wuhan. Hantavirus is a virus that normally infects rodents, but does not cause diseases in them. Humans may become infected with Hantavirus through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or faeces. A person from Yunnan Province died while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a chartered bus on Monday. He was tested positive for #hantavirus. Other 32 people on bus were tested. According to China’s Global Times, all 32 co-passengers that the infected person travelled with by a bus have been tested positive. It, in the US, is known as “New World” hantavirus, while in Europe and Asia, it is known as “Old World” hantavirus. New World hantavirus may cause hant

Corona Vaccine experiments gets started in US.

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T he vaccine was fast-tracked to human trials, but before it's ready for public use it will still be some time. A healthy volunteer in Seattle is the first person in the U.S to receive a dose of an coronavirus vaccine as part of a new clinical trial, government health officials announced yesterday March 16. T he National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) allowed the new vaccine to be fast-tracked into clinical trials without thorough testing in animal models, which usually stands as a strict prerequisite to human testing. While making the jump to human trials could bring the vaccine to market faster, this is only step one. O ver the next six weeks, researchers plan to enroll 45-participants in the trial, which will test the safety of the vaccine as well as its ability to induce an immune response in the volunteers. The trial will take place at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) in Seattle. N ew drugs must pass through thre

Is there a vaccine for coronavirus.Production of Corona Vaccine...

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Corona Vaccine will begin try on Humans in April. T heir Most Effective strategies have slowed the spread of Coronavirus Disease Covid=19. A fter the Declaring of this pandemic disease. All the countries have turned to the prospect of a vaccine, Because Vaccine is the only way to get rid of this pandemic disease. A bout 35 Institutes and Medical Companies are trying to make Coronavirus Vaccine, and 4 of which have been testing in animals. The first companie who made this will try on Humans in April. We need to thank Chinese who efforts to sequence the genetic material of Sars=CoV=2, the virus that causes Covid=19. C hinese give that sequence in starting January, and than companies have started study how it attacks on Human Cells and make people sick. B ut there is another reason for the starting of this virus. Nobody could have predicted that the next viral disease to threaten the whole World will be caused by a coronavirus. Generally flu is considered to the largest pandemi