The COVID-19 incubation period is from 2 to 14 days. The source of coronavirus infection, as a rule, is a sick person. Also, the source can act wild and domestic beasts, monkeys, birds, snakes and other animals.

The virus is transmitted by air-droplet, air-dust, fecal orally. The transmission factors include the release of the nasopharynx, vomiting masses, feces of birds, animals, patient.

People susceptibility to coronavirus is very high, the disease is threatened by all age groups.

To date, the pathogenetic mechanisms of coronavirus infection development are not sufficiently studied. Input gates for infection are the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract. When defeated by the pathogen Covid-19, the infection spreads rapidly on bronchi and lungs.

Throughout this period, a person can infect others. The disease proceeds, most often, as a regular flu, paragraph or any other acute respiratory infection with all characteristic features.
 

      Signs and symptoms COVID-19

After contact with the COVID-19 infected with 14 days, symptoms may occur:

• Cough, chest pain;
• shortness of breath (complicated breathing);
• temperature rise, fever (fever);
• headache;
• primation in the throat;
• General weakness.
   

         As a rule, these infections can cause more severe symptoms in people with a weakened immune system, elderly and those who have chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer and chronic pulmonary diseases.
        

     Features of the disease in children

     In children, infection can spread to the lower parts of the respiratory tract, causing chest pain in breathing and shortness of breath. There is inflammation of the larynx, cervical lymphadenitis, whistling and dry wheezing in the lungs.

What complications are?
 

 

        

Among complications, viral pneumonia is leading. Deterioration of viral pneumonia is at a rapid pneumonia, and in many patients, breathing insufficiency is developing for 24 hours, which requires immediate respiratory support with mechanical pulmonary ventilation.

In time, treatment contributes to facilitating the severity of the disease.
 

As COVID-19 is distributed
 

   

From the fact that we know about other coronaviruses, the distribution of COVID-19 is most likely to occur at close contact (less than 2 meters) with an infected person. It is likely that the risk increases, the longer someone has a close contact with an infected person.

Respiratory secretions formed when an infected man coughs or sneezes containing a virus most likely to be the main ways of disseminating the disease.

There are 2 main ways to spread COVID-19:
 

• Infection can spread among people with a close contact with infected (within 2 meters) or maybe it may fall into the lungs.
• It is also possible that someone can become infected by touching the surface, an object or hand of an infected person infected with respiratory discharge, and then touching his own mouth, nose or eyes (for example, touching the door handle or shaking his hands and then touching his own face).

The virus does not live on the surface longer than 72 hours.

    Diagnosis "Coronavirus Infection" can only be confirmed by laboratory diagnostic methods - PCR testing !!!

     Material for research is mucus, sputum, blood, urine, and more. For diagnostics, a fence of smears from the bottom and nasopharynx is carried out. In case of suspicion of development of pneumonia, the doctor prescribes X-ray or computation tomography.
 

Treatment:

     Treatment of COVID-19 light form or moderate severity includes symptomatic treatment - drugs to reduce temperature, cough, drugs from inferum, etc.

  At the heart of the treatment of severe forms of coronavirus lies medical therapy:

• antiviral drugs;
• specific immunoglobulins;
• corticosteroids.

      Today, there are no specific measures for the prevention of coronavirus - the vaccine has not yet been developed. With the appearance of the smallest symptoms of the disease, it is recommended to self-imagine at home and call the medical doctor and get the necessary recommendations. During the period of maximum morbidity, it is necessary to limit contacts with surrounding people to avoid places of mass accumulation of people.
 

Measures for the prevention of coronavirus:

• Regularly wash hands.
• To adhere to the rules of respiratory hygiene.
• To adhere to the distance in public places.
• If possible, do not touch your hands, nose and mouth.
• With an increase in temperature, the emergence of coughing and difficulty breathing, as soon as possible to apply for medical assistance.
• As general precautions, follow ordinary hygiene rules when visiting grocery markets where meat and poultry or other animal products are sold.
• Do not use raw or such that did not pass proper thermal treatment, animal products.