Brief description of the disease and how it may impact on Hajj and Umrah
The COVID-19 (infection by coronavirus) has already disrupted regular life in areas with high incidences. This threat may go on until God knows when and has the potency of spreading further to God knows where. Scientists are still battling to establish its genesis, its characteristics, medication and vaccine. Depth of uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 is forcing governments worldwide to take hard-hitting infectious diseases preventive and containment measures. And on 11th of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed the outbreak has reached a pandemic level, the first time in world history that a coronavirus would attain such a feat. Already, the virus has not only caused health concerns but economic, social as well as political malaises.
Understanding COVID-19:
This latest Coronavirus pathogen was first reported in Wuhan on December 31 2019 when health experts from China alertedWHO of several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan. Wuhan is a port city of 11 million people in China’s central Hubei province. The virus was described as unknown.
On January 7, officials revealed that the novel virus with crown-like features belongs to a known coronavirus family. This group of viruses are recognized for carrying flu-like infections. It was subsequently named COVID-19 (CO for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for year of emergence).
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