Coronavirus Symptoms

The coronavirus, which is generally known as COVID-19, is a pandemic disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In December 2019, it outburst in Wuhan, Hubei, China, which then became pandemic on 11 March 2020 by World Health Organization (WHO).

As of now, it has been reported that there are above 11,220,009 COVID-19 cases in more than 212 countries and territories, out of which 529,604 or more are the death cases, and more than 6,363,717 are the recoveries.

It has been seen that the COVID-19 virus is spreading so devastatingly, which is mainly due to the people coming close altogether and coughing or sneezing. The respiratory droplets caused by sneezing are inhaled, but it isn't an airborne virus. It is transferred from person to person, especially when they come nearby or when one tap on the contaminated surface and, later on, touchback their own face.

It has an incubation period for about five days or may vary from two to fourteen days. As such, we do not have any vaccination and antiviral treatment for this disease. But yeah, we do have primary treatment, which is symptomatic and supportive therapy. The symptomatic treatment is the one in which it only cures the symptoms, not its underlying cause, and supportive therapy is the one that is given to the patients for increasing their comfort. None of them has a concern with the underlying cause.

We can follow some of the preventive measures that are washing hands rigorously, social distancing, covering mouth while coughing and sneezing, monitoring as well as self-isolate from the persons who suspected to be an infected one.

But the main question is still left unanswered, i.e., What symptoms does COVID-19 possess?

Since COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, so people may undergo mild to moderate fever. The COVID-19 does not encompass any definite symptom. However, the infected person may be asymptomatic or may have normal symptoms of flu such as fever, cough, fatigue, muscle pain, or breathing disability.

The Centres for Disease and Control and Prevention enlisted major symptoms such as:

• Shortness of breathing
  The shortness of breathing, which is generally termed as Dyspnea. As suggested by "Subinoy Das", MD, chief medical officer of Tivic Health Inc, the breathlessness happens due to lungs or heart disorders. The patient may undergo hunger of breathe and chest tightness. However, if continued for a long time, it may lead to major consequences like asthma, heart disease, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Continuous chest pain
  As per WHO report, a patient suffering from coronavirus may have dry cough followed by tightness in chest and breathlessness. It is one of the very serious manifestations of COVID-19.
• Unable to wake up
  According to the National Institutes of Health, it is an anxiety disorder in which the patient faces false alarms that may be intense, frequent, or even in continuity. If sustained for a longer period of time, the patient may reach the state of dysfunctional arousal that causes persistent sleep-wake difficulties.
• Bluish lips or face
  The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that bluish face or lips is an alarming (emergency) condition where one should reach out to the hospital as soon as possible.

In such severe conditions, it is strictly advised to get immediate medical treatment.

If the disease is left untouched, it may further lead to severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, septic shock, and death.

• The ARDS is a respiratory failure incurred due to rapid inflammation in the lungs. It mainly includes shortness of breathing, rapid breathing, and bluish skin coloration.
• Sepsis is one of the perilous situations in which the body organs and tissues got injured in response to the infectious disease. Its common symptoms are fever, increased heartbeats, increased breathing rate, and confusion. Some other symptoms may include a cough with pneumonia or painful urination with a kidney infection. In the case of poor sepsis, one may undergo poor organ function or blood flow, which is mainly due to low blood pressure, high blood lactate, or low urine output.
• Septic shock is also one of the deadliest conditions, which is caused due to sepsis. It dangerously lowers the blood pressure causing abnormalities in cellular metabolism. Alternatively, it can be said that septic shock is a subset of sepsis.

There may be a chance that one suffering from COVID-19 comes out to be asymptomatic, i.e., a condition where the infected one is suspected with normal infection in its test results but does not show any of the clinical symptoms, then, in that case, they should go and meet the doctor for pursuing further monitoring as it is said that "Prevention is better than Cure". From the research of Chinese, about 44% of asymptomatic cases were found.

Also, the incubation period stays from two days to fourteen days, so, in order to protect yourself from COVID-19, you should follow the guidelines provided by WHO (World Health Organization) and the government.

Top 50 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Infected Countries LIVE Update

Country	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total Recovery
USA	2,891,267	132,112	1,235,965
Brazil	1,545,458	63,295	978,615
Russia	674,515	10,027	446,879
India	650,431	18,669	394,411
Spain	297,625	28,385	N/A
Peru	295,599	10,226	185,852
Chile	288,089	6,051	253,343
UK	284,276	44,131	N/A
Mexico	245,251	29,843	147,205
Italy	241,184	34,833	191,467
Iran	235,429	11,260	196,446
Pakistan	225,283	4,619	125,094
Turkey	203,456	5,186	178,278
Saudi Arabia	201,801	1,802	140,614
Germany	197,000	9,073	181,300
South Africa	177,124	2,952	86,298
France	166,960	29,893	77,060
Bangladesh	159,679	1,997	70,721
Colombia	109,505	3,777	45,334
Canada	105,091	8,663	68,693
Qatar	99,183	123	90,387
China	83,545	4,634	78,509
Argentina	72,786	1,437	25,224
Egypt	72,711	3,201	19,690
Sweden	71,419	5,420	N/A
Belarus	62,997	412	49,909
Indonesia	62,142	3,089	28,219
Belgium	61,727	9,765	17,073
Ecuador	60,657	4,700	28,391
Iraq	56,020	2,262	29,600
UAE	50,857	321	39,857
Netherlands	50,335	6,113	N/A
Kuwait	48,672	360	39,276
Ukraine	47,677	1,227	21,115
Kazakhstan	45,719	188	26,750
Oman	45,106	203	26,968
Singapore	44,664	26	39,769
Portugal	43,156	1,598	28,424
Philippines	41,830	1,290	11,453
Bolivia	36,818	1,320	10,766
Panama	35,995	698	16,945
Poland	35,719	1,512	23,127
Dominican Republic	35,148	775	18,392
Afghanistan	32,672	826	19,164
Switzerland	32,101	1,965	29,200
Romania	28,582	1,731	19,854
Bahrain	28,410	95	23,318
Israel	28,055	326	17,669
Armenia	27,900	477	15,935
Nigeria	27,564	628	11,069
Total:	11,220,009	529,604	6,363,717