COVID-19

 Most recent update 13 May 2021 - WHO is constantly observing and reacting to this pandemic. This Q&A will be refreshed as more is had some significant awareness of COVID-19, what it spreads and how it is meaning for individuals around the world. For more data, routinely check the WHO Covid pages. https://www.who.int/Coronavirus

1.What is COVID-19

Coronavirus is the infection brought about by a new Covid called SARS-CoV-2. WHO initially educated of this new infection on 31 December 2019, following a report of a group of instances of 'viral pneumonia' in Wuhan, People's Republic of China.

2.What are the symptoms of COVID-19?

The most well-known manifestations of COVID-19 are

Fever

Dry hack

Exhaustion

Different indications that are more uncommon and may influence a few patients include:

Loss of taste or smell,

Nasal clog,

Conjunctivitis (otherwise called red eyes)

Sore throat,

Cerebral pain,

Muscle or joint agony,

Various sorts of skin rash,

Queasiness or spewing,

The runs,

Chills or dazedness.

Side effects of serious COVID‐19 infection include:

Windedness,

Loss of hunger,

Disarray,

Diligent torment or tension in the chest,

High temperature (over 38 °C).

Other more uncommon side effects are:

Peevishness,

Disarray,

Decreased cognizance (in some cases related with seizures),

Tension,

Sorrow,

Rest issues,

More extreme and uncommon neurological inconveniences, for example, strokes, cerebrum aggravation, daze and nerve harm.

Individuals of any age who experience fever or potentially hack related with trouble breathing or windedness, chest torment or strain, or loss of discourse or development should look for clinical consideration right away. In the event that conceivable, call your medical care supplier, hotline or wellbeing office first, so you can be coordinated to the right center.

3.What happens to people who get COVID-19?

Among the individuals who foster indications, most (around 80%) recuperate from the sickness without requiring clinic therapy. Around 15% become genuinely sick and require oxygen and 5% become fundamentally sick and need escalated care.

Inconveniences prompting passing might incorporate respiratory disappointment, intense respiratory misery disorder (ARDS), sepsis and septic shock, thromboembolism, or potentially multiorgan disappointment, including injury of the heart, liver or kidneys.

In uncommon circumstances, kids can foster a serious provocative disorder half a month later disease.

4.Who is most at risk of severe illness from COVID-19?

Individuals matured 60 years and over, and those with fundamental clinical issues like hypertension, heart and lung issues, diabetes, stoutness or malignant growth, are at higher danger of creating genuine ailment.

Be that as it may, anybody can become ill with COVID-19 and become genuinely sick or kick the bucket at whatever stage in life.

5.Are there long-term effects of COVID-19?

Certain individuals who have had COVID-19, whether or not they have required hospitalization, keep on encountering side effects, including exhaustion, respiratory and neurological indications.

WHO is working with our Global Technical Network for Clinical Management of COVID-19, scientists and patient gatherings all over the planet to plan and do investigations of patients past the underlying intense course of disease to comprehend the extent of patients who have long haul impacts, how long they continue, and why they happen. These investigations will be utilized to foster further direction for patient consideration.

6.How can we protect others and ourselves if we don't know who is infected?

Remain protected by playing it safe, for example, physical removing, wearing a cover, particularly when separating can't be kept up with, keeping rooms all around ventilated, staying away from groups and close contact, consistently cleaning your hands, and hacking into a twisted elbow or tissue. Check nearby counsel where you reside and work. Do everything!

Peruse our public guidance page for more data.

7.When should I get a test for COVID-19?

Anybody with side effects ought to be tried, at every possible opportunity. Individuals who don't have manifestations yet have had close contact with somebody who is, or might be, contaminated may likewise think about testing – contact your nearby wellbeing rules and heed their direction.

While an individual is sitting tight for test results, they ought to stay disconnected from others. Where testing limit is restricted, tests should initially be finished those at higher danger of contamination, like wellbeing laborers, and those at higher danger of serious ailment like more established individuals, particularly those residing in seniors' homes or long haul care offices.

8.What test should I get to see if I have COVID-19?

Much of the time, a sub-atomic test is utilized to identify SARS-CoV-2 and affirm contamination. Polymerase chain response (PCR) is the most regularly utilized sub-atomic test. Tests are gathered from the nose as well as throat with a swab. Atomic tests recognize infection in the example by enhancing viral hereditary material to distinguishable levels. Hence, an atomic test is utilized to affirm a functioning contamination, generally inside a couple of long periods of openness and around the time that side effects might start.

9.What about rapid tests?

Fast antigen tests (at times known as a quick analytic test – RDT) recognize viral proteins (known as antigens). Tests are gathered from the nose and additionally throat with a swab. These tests are less expensive than PCR and will offer outcomes all the more rapidly, despite the fact that they are for the most part less exact. These tests perform best when there is more infection circling locally and when inspected from a person during the time they are generally irresistible

10.I want to find out if I had COVID-19 in the past, what test could I take?

Counter acting agent tests can perceive us whether somebody has had a disease previously, regardless of whether they have not had side effects. Otherwise called serological tests and typically done on a blood test, these tests identify antibodies created in light of a contamination. In a great many people, antibodies begin to create later days to weeks and can show assuming an individual has had past contamination. Counter acting agent tests can't be utilized to analyze COVID-19 in the beginning phases of contamination or illness however can show whether or not somebody has had the sickness previously.

11.What is the difference between isolation and quarantine?

Both separation and quarantine are techniques for forestalling the spread of COVID-19.

Quarantine is utilized for any individual who is a contact of somebody contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes COVID-19, whether or not the tainted individual has manifestations. Quarantine implies that you stay isolated from others since you have been presented to the infection and you might be tainted and can happen in an assigned office or at home. For COVID-19, this implies remaining in the office or at home for 14 days.

Separation is utilized for individuals with COVID-19 manifestations or who have tried positive for the infection. Being in confinement implies being isolated from others, in a perfect world in a medicinally office where you can get clinical consideration. Assuming separation in a clinical office is beyond the realm of possibilities and you are not in a high danger gathering of creating serious sickness, segregation can occur at home. Assuming you have side effects, you ought to stay in confinement for something like 10 days in addition to 3 extra days without indications. In the event that you are contaminated and don't foster indications, you ought to stay in disengagement for 10 days from the time you test positive.

12.What should I do if I have been exposed to someone who has COVID-19?

Assuming you have been presented to somebody with COVID-19, you might become contaminated, regardless of whether you feel great.

Later openness to somebody who has COVID-19, do the accompanying:

Call your medical care supplier or COVID-19 hotline to discover where and when to get a test.

Help out contact-following methodology to stop the spread of the infection.

Assuming that testing isn't accessible, remain at home and away from others for 14 days.

While you are in isolation, don't go to work, to school or to public spots. Request that somebody bring you supplies.

Keep no less than a 1-meter distance from others, even from your relatives.

Wear a clinical veil to secure others, including if/when you want to look for clinical consideration.

Clean your hands as often as possible.

Remain in a different room from other relatives, and if unrealistic, wear a clinical cover.

Keep the room all around ventilated.

Assuming you share a room, place beds no less than 1 meter separated.

Screen yourself for any manifestations for 14 days.

Remain positive by staying in contact with friends and family by telephone or on the web, and by practicing at home.

Assuming you live in a space with intestinal sickness or dengue fever, look for clinical assistance in the event that you have a fever. While making a trip to and from the wellbeing office and during clinical consideration, wear a cover, keep something like a 1-meter distance from others and try not to contact surfaces with your hands. This applies to grown-ups and kids.

13.How long does it take to develop symptoms?

All things considered, 5-6 days and can go from 1-14 days. For this reason individuals who have been presented to the infection are encouraged to stay at home and avoid others, for 14 days, to forestall the spread of the infection, particularly where testing isn't effectively accessible.

14.Is there a vaccine for COVID-19?

Indeed. The principal mass immunization program began toward the beginning of December 2020 and the quantity of inoculation dosages directed is refreshed consistently here. No less than 13 unique antibodies (across 4 stages) have been controlled. Crusades have begun in 206 economies.

The Pfizer/BioNtech Comirnaty immunization was recorded for WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) on 31 December 2020. The SII/Covishield and AstraZeneca/AZD1222 immunizations (created by AstraZeneca/Oxford and produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio individually) were given EUL on 16 February. The Janssen/Ad26.COV 2.S created by Johnson and Johnson, was recorded for EUL on 12 March 2021. The Moderna COVID-19 immunization (mRNA 1273) was recorded for EUL on 30 April 2021 and the Sinopharm COVID-19 antibody was recorded for EUL on 7 May 2021. The Sinopharm immunization is delivered by Beijing Bio-Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd, auxiliary of China National Biotec Group (CNBG).

For additional data, see here.

Whenever immunizations are exhibited to be protected and adequate, they should be endorsed by public controllers, produced to demanding principles, and appropriated. WHO is working with accomplices all over the planet to assist coordinate with entering steps in this interaction, including to work with impartial admittance to protected and compelling COVID-19 immunizations for the billions of individuals who will require them. More data about COVID-19 antibody improvement is accessible here.

15.What should I do if I have COVID-19 symptoms?

Assuming you have any side effects reminiscent of COVID-19, call your medical care supplier or COVID-19 hotline for guidelines and discover when and where to get a test, remain at home for 14 days from others and screen your wellbeing.

Assuming you have windedness or torment or tension in the chest, look for clinical consideration at a wellbeing office right away. Call your medical services supplier or hotline ahead of time for heading to the right wellbeing office.

Assuming you live in a space with intestinal sickness or dengue fever, look for clinical consideration in the event that you have a fever.

Assuming neighborhood direction suggests visiting a clinical community for testing, appraisal or confinement, wear a clinical cover while making a trip to and from the office and during clinical consideration. Additionally keep something like a 1-meter distance from others and try not to contact surfaces with your hands. This applies to grown-ups and kids.

16.Are there treatments for COVID-19?

Researchers all over the planet are attempting to find and foster medicines for COVID-19.

Ideal steady consideration incorporates oxygen for seriously sick patients and the people who are in danger for extreme infection and further developed respiratory help, for example, ventilation for patients who are fundamentally sick.

Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid that can assist with diminishing the period of time on a ventilator and save lives of patients with extreme and basic ailment. Peruse our dexamethasone Q&A for more data.

Results from the WHO's Solidarity Trial showed that remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon regimens seem to have practically zero impact on 28-day mortality or the in-medical clinic course of COVID-19 among hospitalized patients.

Hydroxychloroquine has not been displayed to offer any advantage for treatment of COVID-19. Peruse our hydroxychloroquine Q&A for more data.

WHO doesn't suggest self-drug with any prescriptions, including anti-infection agents, as an avoidance or solution for COVID-19. WHO is planning endeavors to foster medicines for COVID-19 and will keep on giving new data as it opens up.

17.Are antibiotics effective in preventing or treating COVID-19?

Anti-toxins don't neutralize infections; they just work on bacterial diseases. Coronavirus is brought about by an infection, so anti-toxins don't work. Anti-infection agents ought not be utilized as a method for anticipation or treatment of COVID-19.

In clinics, doctors will now and then utilize anti-infection agents to forestall or treat auxiliary bacterial contaminations which can be an intricacy of COVID-19 in seriously sick patients. They ought to just be utilized as guided by a doctor to treat a bacterial disease.