HEALTH

                The race is on to find out how the deadly Coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, Helen Briggs looks at how scientists are trying to trace the source of the outbreak. Somewhere in China, a bat flits across the sky, leaving a trace of Coronavirus in its droppings, which fall to the forest floor. A wild animal, possibly a pangolin snuffling for insects among the leaves, picks up the infection from excrement, the novel Covid-19 circulates in wildlife, eventually an infected animal is captured and a person somehow catches the disease, then passes it on to workers at a wildlife market. A global outbreak is born, scientists are attempting to prove the truth of this scenario as they work to find wild animals harboring the Coronavirus. Finding the sequence of events is a bit of a detective story , says Prof Andrew Cunningham of Zoological Society London ZSL, A range of wild animal species could be the host, in particular bats which...

               We can pick up virus by touching surfaces contaminated with the new Coronavirus, but it is only just becoming clear how long the virus can survive outside the human body. As Coronavirus has spread, so has our fear of surfaces, these are now some familiar scenes in public places around the world people trying to open doors with their elbows, commuters studiously surfing their way through train journeys to avoid grabbing a handle, office workers rubbing down their desks each morning. In the areas worst hit by the new Coronavirus, teams of Workers in protective clothing have been dispatched to spray a fog of disinfectant in plazas, parks and public streets. Cleaning regimes in offices, hospitals, shops and restaurants have been increased, in some cities well meaning volunteers even venture out at night to scrub the keypads of cash machines. Like many respiratory viruses, including flu, COVID-19 can be spread in tiny droplets relea...

                  Their eyes are tired, their cheekbones rubbed raw from protective masks, they don't smile. The doctors and nurses on the front line of the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets, the flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift as the only barrier to contagion. Associated press photographers fanned out on Friday to photograph them during rare breaks from hospital intensive care units in the Lombardy region cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Rome, in each case, doctors, nurses and paramedics posed in front of forest green surgical draps, the bland backdrop of their sterile wards. Friday was a bad day in Italy as registered the most deaths since the country's outbreak had exploded five weeks earlier, adding 969 more victims to raise the world's highest COVID-19 toll to more than 9,000 which makes Italy surpassed China in total confirmed cases, stands beh...

 It wasn't until late December that Chinese officials realized they had a new virus on their hands but even then, China's government clamped down on sharing information about it with the public, according to The Wall Street Journal. A person believed to be the first ever human infected with COVID-19 has broken her silence, Wei Guixian is a 57 year old seafood merchant at the Huanan Market in Wuhan where the virus is suspected to have first made the jump from a bat to human, she described how she first started to feel ill on December 10, believing she had caught a cold or maybe the flu. "I felt a bit tired but not as tired as previous years, every winter, I always suffer from the flu, so i thought it was the flu" she said. The next day she walked to a small local clinic and got the usual treatment and an injection, before going back to work, the first steps in a global pandemic that has infected over half a million and killed more than 25,000 so far. When her symp...

                 As the new Coronavirus that has killed more than 24,000 people continues to spread around the world, Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the pandemic and prevent its spread within the country, there have been 1,036 cases of COVID-19 infections reported in Russia so far and 4 deaths. The authorities confirmed 196 new cases on Friday, bringing the country's official number of cases up to more than thousand and making the largest one-day increase in cases so far, it also said one person had died in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 4, Russia will suspend all regular and charter flights to other countries starting today, President Vladimir Putin has declared that the week from March 28 to April 5 will be a nationwide paid holiday to encourage Russians to stay home and slow the spread of the virus. All restaurants and cafes have been ordered to close during this time with the exception of delive...

               The Bio-Terrorism and scientists' interventions in the genetic modification of biology, human and animal cloning, textile cultivation and other biological sciences are suspicions both interest at the same time, makes us stand for moments with the British astronomer Martin Reese "Full name Martin John Reese , Baron Rees of Ludlow , born June 23, 1942 in York, England" who wrote a book called "Our Final Hour" in 2003. In this book, there are confirmations of fears about the prospects of the Universe's End, he said: Predictions of a catastrophe which would destroy the world are rising to 50% from 20% was 100 years ago, because science is advancing to an unpredictable degree in a more dangerous area than ever before. Reese believes that the most important threats to humanity are the nuclear terrorism or the genetically modified lethal viruses, the breakdown of man-made devices and the genetic engineering that change human's natur...

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people , the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected , is five times higher than in other parts of the country , leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the gro...

                                              Earlier this year, when the first reports of the Coronavirus started to come out of China, globale health officials said they were very worried about what would happen if COVID-19 started spreading in Africa, where many health systems are already struggling, well Africa now affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, so far the number of reported cases remains growing more than 1,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been identified in 40 African countries that have so far spared from the Coronavirus outbreak, but in reality they are likely to be hit the hardest, according to recent assessment obviously brought to evolve, Uganda and Eritrea joined the list of African countries which announced last weekend their first confirmed cases, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Kenya have reported additional cases, from Burkina Faso in west ...

                    Spain is the second hardest hit country in Europe, Coronavirus is growing exponentially, cases went from 2 to 100 in one week then from 100 to 1,000 and from 1,000 to 4,000 in four days. Since March 14, when the Council of Ministers decreed the state of alarm, the whole of Spain has been formally closed, A huge self isolation in homes of more than 47 million citizens has been announced, who can only go out into the street alone just to work and buy food, medicine or basic items, COVID-19 continues its worldwide expansion, the highest number of those infected is found in the Chinese province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected last December, however while in China the number of infected people continues to add new cases "since last Thursday they have not recorded any new local contagion" beyond the borders of the Asian giant it expands unstoppable, only Iran and Italy add more than 80,000 tested positive c...