CORONAVIRUS – CAUSES OF SPREAD AND ITS PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Many things in human history have shown our real position in nature. Nature has shown our limitations and the level of doing something. It always somehow makes us remember what are we and what we can do. Nobody can do anything when nature shows up its real face. It makes us remember how weak we are in front of nature and we cannot control or change nature just like that.

Likewise, many small things have shaken the mankind and pushed us to the brink. And one of them is Novel Corona Virus.

Recently Novel Corona Virus has breakout in the world. It is widely known as Corona Virus Disease or COVID-19. Many scientists have declared it as SARS Corona Virus-2 (SARS CoV-2). There are three types of coronavirus. SARS, MERS, and NOVEL. But the recent virus which has flushed almost half of the people of the earth is the Novel Corona Virus.

The virus first showed up in Wuhan the capital of Hubei province in China. Scientists say it spread from bats.

Some people say the virus is a curse by Allah. Some Islamic missionary says the virus has breakout because the Chinese have tortured the Muslim community in Uighur province of China.

There are also rumors though. Some people are making videos of and posting illogical information on the internet. And these are confusing as well as misguiding the people to the wrong. People are sharing illogical information like – “Eat this, eat that, and drink this, do this and that” and so on. Recently, in Bangladesh, a rumor was posted and it said that a child was born and he told to drink tea with ginger. But these are all rumors. In India, people are drinking the urine of cows to keep them protected from coronavirus. They are doing this as some Hindu extremists told them to do so. The honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh has told the people not to listen to any rumor.

Scientists and researchers say COVID-19 is an infectious virus. Perhaps, every virus is infectious. The coronavirus spreads through the air. People around an infected person might get infected by the virus. The virus is very powerful. But it cannot stay alive in the air for so long. But when it’s in the air it acts like inert materials. It can stay alive on the surfaces of paper, steel, and wood for a long time. And we use these things in our daily life a lot. So, we need to be careful about using these.

The virus spreads when we meet with other people, shake hands, cough or sneeze and so on. When someone sneezes the droplets containing many germs and coronavirus gets spread around us. And like that, it spreads through the air. Also when sneezing if someone covers his mouth with his hand it may prevent the virus from spreading in the air but it will spread when he touches other appliances around him. Such as doorknobs, pen, pencil, computer, papers, book, diary, phone and so on. These will contain the virus and if someone else touches those appliances he will get infected by the virus. The virus also spreads when someone talks. Likewise, if two people are talking to each other the virus can infect the uninfected person.

The infected person can’t even realize immediately after he is infected. The symptoms get visual after 14 days or 2 weeks minimum. And just like that, he can infect other people around him unknowingly and unwillingly. So, we need to be very careful.

The WHO has suggested some necessary steps to be taken to avoid getting infected by the virus. They have suggested washing our hands at a regular interval with hand washes or hand sanitizers or any other liquid substance containing alcohol. We should also avoid social gathering areas as much as we can. Like the park, stadium, cinema halls and so on. We should also avoid public transportation like bus, trump, launch, boats and so on.

We should stay at home as the government has declared public breakup. As a result school, office, court, and other government administrations are closed. We must wear masks and hand gloves if we need to go out for any kind of emergency. We must keep at least 3 meters of distance with other people around us to avoid getting infected and also infecting others. After coming from outside we must wash our hands with hand washes and take a bath before touching anything in our house. We should try and use one time masks. We should wash our masks, hand gloves, and socks daily and also wash our clothes daily even if we are staying inside our house. We should also clean our cell phones, TV, keyboard, mouse and other appliances in our house daily. We should also try and keep our windows closed all the time or at least in the day and can open them at night. We should avoid meeting with our friends and even our neighbors.

Moreover, we should be careful and make other people careful letting them know about the causes of spread and precautions to avoid the virus. The government is up and doing anything necessary for the safety of the people of this country. We may even get bored with or it may become intolerable of what the government is doing. But we all should remember one thing, whatever the government is doing, is for our own safety.

We need not worry about this situation at all but just to be careful. Even if something terrible happens in our country, we should not panic. Because after our liberation war we rebuilt our nation and we will rebuild it again. We will survive.