COVID-19 || CORONA VIRUS

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

 As of 31 January 2021, India reported 10,746,183 confirmed cases. Daily cases in India continue to decline with 13,052 confirmed cases reported on 31st January 2021. Cases per million is 7,670 and a total of 154,274 deaths have been reported.

  • Active  (1.32%) 143625     (4984)
  • Discharged  (97.25%) 10548521     (14016)
  • Deaths  (1.43%) 155158      (78)
 
Covid-19 Vaccination
Total Vaccination : 62,59,008 (4,46,646)
 
 

  Current Scenario of COVID-19 in the World

CASES                     RECOVERED            DEATHS

106M                            59.4M                       2.32M 

 There are 106M Corona cases all over the world.Where 59.4M people are recovered and the no. of death is 2.32M.

  FUTURE PREDICTIONS FOR COVID-19  

9 Future Predictions For A Post-Coronavirus World

1. More Contactless Interfaces and Interactions

 It’s expected that we’ll have fewer touch screens and more voice interfaces and machine vision interfaces. Prior to the pandemic, we saw the rollout of contactless payment options through mobile devices.  Machine vision interfaces are already used today to apply social media filters and to offer autonomous checkout at some stores. Expect there to be an expansion of voice and machine vision interfaces that recognise faces and gestures throughout several industries to limit the amount of physical contact.

2. Strengthened Digital Infrastructure

COVID-19 caused people to adapt to working from home and in isolation. By forcing our collective hand to find digital solutions to keep meetings, lessons, workouts, and more going when sheltering in our homes, it allowed many of us to see the possibilities for continuing some of these practices in a post-COVID-19 world.

3. Better Monitoring Using IoT and Big Data

We see the power of data in a pandemic in real-time. The lessons we are receiving from this experience will inform how we monitor future pandemics by using internet of things technology and big data. National or global apps could result in better early warning systems because they could report and track who is showing symptoms of an outbreak. GPS data could then be used to track where exposed people have been and who they have interacted with to show contagion.

4. AI-Enabled Drug Development

The faster we can create and deploy an effective and safe drug to treat and a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 and future viruses, the faster it will be contained. Artificial intelligence is an ideal partner in drug development because it can accelerate and complement human endeavours. Our current reality will inform future efforts to deploy AI in drug development.

5. Telemedicine

To kerb traffic at hospitals and other healthcare practitioners offices, many are implementing or reminding their patients that consultations can be done through video. Rather than rush to the doctor or healthcare centre, remote care enables clinical services without an in-person visit.

6. More Online Shopping

 After COVID-19, businesses that want to remain competitive will figure out ways to have online services even if they maintain a brick-and-mortar location, and there will be enhancements to the logistics and delivery systems to accommodate surges in demand whether that's from shopper preference or a future pandemic.

7. Increased Reliance on Robots

Robots aren't susceptible to viruses. Whether they are used to deliver groceries or to take vitals in a healthcare system or to keep a factory running, companies realise how robots could support us today and play an important role in a post-COVID-19 world or during a future pandemic.

8. More Digital Events

Organisers and participants of in-person events that were forced to switch to digital realise there are pros and cons of both. This week’s debate about AI in education was done as a virtual event and went very well and actually had more people attend. We didn't experience a capacity issue as we do with an in-person event, plus there were attendees logged on from all around the world. While I don't predict that in-person events will be replaced entirely after COVID-19, I do believe event organisers will figure out ways the digital aspects can complement in-person events. I predict a steep rise in hybrid events where parts of the event take place in person, and others are delivered digitally.

9. Rise in E-sports

COVID-19 might be taxing our systems and patience, but it’s also building our resilience and allowing us to develop new and innovative solutions out of necessity. In a post-COVID-19 world, I predict we will take the lessons handed to us by our time dealing with the virus and make our world a better place.
 I predict more hybrid sports coverage where physical events are complemented with digital offerings.

  DUTY OF GOVERNMENT DURING COVID-19  

1. Immediate response : During times of crisis, governments around the world must act quickly and decisively, even in the face of limited information.

 2.  Recover and rebuild They need to rebuild agencies’ confidence; enable citizens to get back to work; help return the private sector to full output; and shorten the length of the economic downturn. 

 3. Optimize for the new normal : They need to re-imagine their business processes and seek better ways to operate.

  GOVERNMENT POLICIES DURING COVID-19 IN INDIA

1. Travel and entry restrictions 

2. Screening

3. Closedown and curfews

4. Lockdown (On 22 March)

Zonal classification

Red zone (Hotspots) – districts with high doubling rate and high number of active cases.
 Orange zone (Non-hotspots) – districts with fewer cases.
Green zone – districts without confirmed cases or without new cases in last 21 days.

5. Communication and economic stimulus

6. Legal announcements

7. Evacuations

8. Legal actions

9. International relations

10. Aarogya Setu

11. Economic package

  DUTY OF PUBLIC DURING COVID-19     

1. Public should follow the rules and regulations given by government.

2. They must clean their hands often with sanitizers.

There are hundreds of coronaviruses, most of which circulate in animals. Only seven of these viruses infect humans and four of them cause symptoms of the common cold. But, three times in the last 20 years, a coronavirus has jumped from animals to humans to cause severe disease.

The new coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Tens of thousands of people were infected in China, with the virus spreading easily from person-to-person in many parts of that country.

The novel coronavirus infections were at first associated with travel from Wuhan, but the virus has now established itself in 177 countries and territories around the world in a rapidly expanding pandemic. Health officials in the United States and around the world are working to contain the spread of the virus through public health measures such as social distancing, contact tracing, testing, quarantines and travel restrictions. Scientists are working to find medications to treat the disease and to develop a vaccine.

The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern” on January 30. On March 11, 2020 after sustained spread of the disease outside of China, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 epidemic a pandemic. Public health measures like ones implemented in China and now around the world, will hopefully blunt the spread of the virus while treatments and a vaccine are developed to stop it.

       
 

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