The emergence of the corona virus in China has shocked the world in the past week. In fact, the death rate in China due to the mysterious virus currently reaches 17 people. Not only that, the number of sufferers in the last few days also continues to grow to nearly 600 people.

Reporting from the official page of WHO, WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The virus did not match any other known virus and suspect a new kind of viruses other than they have knew it.

One week later, on 7 January, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus. The new virus is a coronavirus, which is a family of viruses that include the common cold, and viruses such as SARS and MERS. This new virus was temporarily named “2019-nCoV.”

There is no vaccine that can fight the Corona virus. This is due to the new Corona virus, so scientists are still doing further research.

So what to do?

The only way is to do an examination if you experience the symptoms mentioned above, so you can get medical treatment as early as possible. Furthermore, several ways that can be done are:

Take medications (aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, etc.)

Increase fluid intake

Enough rest

In general, patients who have been exposed to this virus will be isolated in a special room during treatment to prevent the spread of the virus. Recently the viruses has been spread all over the country especially in Asia, and 10 countries has been confirmed that already plagued by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), they are like China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Vietnam, Nepal, and France. So if you want to traveling to that countries notably China, you have to get travel advisory in advance even cancelling visits for more secure for your and also for people arounds and your country.

Here’s are the recommendation cited from WHO website:

WHO’s standard recommendations for the general public to reduce exposure to and transmission of a range of illnesses are as follows, which include hand and respiratory hygiene, and safe food practices: