COVID-19 is a contagious disease that causes mild to severe respiratory symptoms with fever, cough, and shortness of breath. It spreads primarily by person-to-person contact through respiratory droplets that become airborne when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress in the fight against poverty, and it’s jeopardized the future of a generation of children.
The deployment of COVID-19 vaccines is raising hopes for recovery around the world. World Vision’s excited at the global potential for these vaccines to change and save lives. The development and introduction of safe vaccines are key to protecting the world’s most vulnerable people and restoring hope and livelihoods.
About the pandemic.
Pandemic is a major worldwide epidemic, where an infectious disease spreads in several parts of the world.
What level should we fear this virus?
About 50 countries have reported infection and we have recently had the first case of an infected traveller coming to Norway. About 86 per cent of cases cause mild respiratory tract infections.
What you should know.
This infection with common cold symptoms. If you have been in contact with someone who may be infected, you should contact the health care system and ask for advice if you suspect infection and especially if you have rapid or laboured breathing.
How this virus infect.
The original new coronavirus infection probably came from an animal and infected humans. Now it infects people through sneezing and coughing, but also through contact with virus-contaminated surfaces.
