Numbers first! As of February 26, 81,008 cases of coronavirus have been detected worldwide and 2763 people have died from it. Note immediately that the American University Johns-Hopkins recalled that more than 30,000 patients have recovered.
If the Coronavirus epidemic started from the city of Wuhan in China, now more than thirty countries are now affected by the epidemic, with a death toll that far exceeds 30 deaths outside of China. In Europe, Italy, the most affected country, reached the bar of 400 cases on Wednesday evening and has 12 deaths. Concerning France, the toll is now two dead for 18 cases of infection recorded, after the death of a 60-year-old Frenchman announced on Wednesday February 26; 4 people are still hospitalized.
They are the following, quite similar to the flu:headache, malaise, runny nose, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, chest pain, muscle aches . In the most severe cases, the presence of Covid-19 in the body (the number 19 indicating the year of its appearance:2019) can be manifested by a very high fever, acute respiratory distress syndrome, kidney failure acute or multiple organ failure that can lead to death.
The World Health Organization currently estimates "the incubation period (time between infection and the onset of first symptoms) to be between 1 and 12.5 days, with the median being from 5 to 6 days ”.
The Ministry of Solidarity and Health indicates on its website that in case of doubt about possible contamination, you can contact the Samu Center 15 by reporting symptoms and recent stay in an area where the virus is actively circulating; the areas being China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau), Singapore, South Korea, Lombardy and Veneto and Iran.
To put this epidemic into perspective, remember that the flu affects around 1 billion people a year, and kills between 290,000 and 650,000 of them. “Let’s not forget that we have around 60,000 seasonal flu deaths every year in Europe » , indeed recently reminded the director of the WHO for Europe, Hans Kluge, during a press conference in Rome.
