Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ABOUT THE DISEASE
Virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Hand Washing
Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. That splash-under-water flick won’t cut it anymore.
Use Mask
Face masks have become a symbol of coronavirus, but stockpiling them might do more harm than good.
940,735
Total Cases
47,518
Total Deaths
196,221
Total Recovered
696,996
Active Cases
How Coronavirus is Spread
Transmission of (COVID-19)
This version updates the 27 March publication by providing definitions of droplets by particle size and adding three relevant publications.
Human Contact
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Air Transmission
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Contaminated
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An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus.
