The world currently is living in fear of a virus that has threatened humanity. This fear and anxiety among people rose even high when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared and tagged Coronavirus as a ‘Pandemic’.
This made it to the headlines of all news channels and newspapers worldwide. To top that, we also saw this news becoming people’s Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp stories. This caused fear in our minds and has almost made us believe that Coronavirus, scientifically termed as Covid-19 is the worst thing that has happened to human civilization.
Have you, though, tried to question your fear and replace it with rationality and reasoning?
Let me make all this simpler for you and reduce your fear a bit
When WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic, all it simply conveyed to the world was that ‘now Coronovirus has spread globally’. The word ‘Pandemic’ is simply a terminology meaning the spread of a new disease worldwide. It is used by doctors to understand the depth of a particular disease. It does not refer to the severity of the disease.
This is different from the other commonly used terms like epidemic and outbreak. The term epidemic is used when a particular infectious disease starts spreading rapidly among a large number of people in a community or nation within two weeks or less. An outbreak, on the other hand, is the sudden increase in the occurrence of infectious disease at a particular time that can affect a small localized group or even an entire continent.
The spread of Covid-19 has affected more than 130,000 lakh people worldwide and has made its presence in around 120 countries. What is important to note is that out of the lakhs of coronavirus confirmed cases, around 5,000 fatalities have been reported and about 67,000 have been recovered. This indicates that there have been more recoveries than deaths.
This isn’t the first time the world is experiencing a pandemic. The last pandemic occurred in 2009 when H1N1 claimed around 4 lakh lives. The death rate of other epidemics and outbreaks like the MERS (2012) and SARS (2002) that affected over 26-27 countries was way higher than that of Covid-19. The reason why they weren’t labelled as pandemic was because, they were eventually contained. Not to forget that as compared to other outbreaks, the pandemic of Coronavirus has received maximum media coverage as well.
Although these basic preventive measures and instructions have been given like a thousand times, there are many who are still considering this as a rather ‘funny drama’.
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