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 Coronavirus Threatens Two -Thirds of Earth’s  Population: Expert


Fri 14 Feb 2020 | 01:33 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Ira Longeni, an expert with the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the infection with the Coronavirus may hit more than two-thirds of the earth population.

He also works as co-director of the Center for Contagious Diseases under Florida University, USA.

He said the quarantining measurements may slow the spreading of the infection caused by that deadly virus of coronavirus for a short time.

But such steps will not stop the spreading of the virus which doesn’t acknowledge either the political

nor the geographical boundaries between the countries or continents.

He pointed out that the virus has sneaked outside  China before those measurements being taken.

He stressed that every infected person may transmit the disease to two or three other people.

If that dangerous rate continues, more than the population of the earth will be infected soon.

The WHO has issued a statement saying that spreading the infection among people who have been to China resembles a spark would convert into a big fire.

On the other hand, experts in the United Kingdom (UK) recommend using alcoholic sterilizers after touching money to get rid of the virus.

Some doctors warn that the virus may transfer by touching money.

The WHO renamed the deadly virus as   COVID19 which it can stay alive on various surfaces such as knobs, coins public lavatories for more than a week.

Dr. Martin Wieslca, expert of contagious diseases at Leicester University, UK, warns that the country would be about an uncontrollable event.

The doctors thought previously that the direct touch transmits the virus of coronavirus.

But later they said the virus may transmit through indirect contacts such as the common cold and influenza.

He stresses the clean hands are is an important matter so using the alcoholic sterilizer is very sensitive to prevent the virus from spreading.

The novel virus is more dangerous when is compared with the ones that cause SARS.