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  • the new Corona virus is still spreading, and so a rumors and misinformation about it.

  • So here's what we know and what we don't know so fun.

  • The newly identified virus has killed at least 170 people in China, according to the latest estimates from Chinese state media on more than 7000 people have been infected worldwide.

  • The center of the novel Corona virus outbreak is Wuhan in central China, although cases have now been diagnosed in other countries, Corona virus is the name of the group this infection belongs to, and there are seven known Corona virus is named after their crown like shape under a microscope.

  • The SARS variant infected more than 8000 people in 2003 and killed 744.

  • So where has it spread to At the moment, According to the latest data, around 7800 cases have been confirmed so far, the vast majority in China.

  • More than 50 people have been diagnosed with the virus in 16 countries.

  • Chinese state media has put the death toll at 170 so far, but no deaths have been reported outside of China yet.

  • UK has tested some 97 patients so far for suspected Corona, but no one has been found to have the virus yet.

  • As it stands, there are no confirmed cases in Britain.

  • How worried should people in the UK Big Mark Wall House, who's professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, told Our fat check team that the risk is currently low.

  • He said anyone with flu like symptoms is overwhelmingly more likely to have an ordinary respiratory infection than this new virus that even applies to people with connections.

  • With Wu Han, however, the risk is almost certain to increase as the outbreak develops.

  • What is the official advice for travelers to China?

  • Public health bodies in the UK and the United States are both advising A.

  • Dench travel to Hu Bei problems and the U.

  • K government has advised against a what a central travel to the rest of mainland China to UK.

  • Government advises that people should seek medical attention if you have visited Wu Han and develop a fever, difficulty breathing or a cop within 14 days, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancocks have people who have returned from Wu Han in the last two weeks should self isolate avoiding contact with other people for 14 days even if they do not have symptoms.

  • And UK government is now preparing to fly some 200 British citizens back from Wuhan and put them in quarantine for two weeks.

  • Other countries and now during the same, including Japan, the United States on the EU Australia is planning to quarantine it's evacuees on Christmas Island, some 1200 miles off the mainland.

  • And this all comes as British Airways have suspended flights to and from mainland China.

  • United Airlines and Cathay Pacific are also restricting flights.

  • Should I wear a mouth?

  • World Health Organization guidelines say health care workers treating patients should wear masks, goggles, surgical gowns and gloves.

  • The guidelines say that staff should be trained to wear masks on other protective equipment as they need to be taken off and disposed of carefully on new ones issued when treating a new patient.

  • A number of experts have said there is no need for the general public toe wear masks in places where the risk of infection is low.

  • The current W H O infection control device for the general public does not mention masts or goggles, instead focusing on hand washing, covering your mouth while sneezing and avoiding raw, undercooked food.

  • Is there a vaccine?

  • No.

  • There is currently not a vaccine available for the novel Corona virus.

  • Despite bogus claims on social media, China's state run news agency shrink watts that scientists in the country have already begun working on a vaccine.

  • Western academics have said it may take months or years for a working vaccine to emerge.

  • Is there a cure like SARS?

  • The new Corona virus strain has no known cure order.

  • Most cases do not prove fatal, and some patients have already recovered on being discharged from hospital.

  • Is it caused by bats?

  • It's no implausible that while bats could be the source of a Corona virus epidemic, both the SARS outbreak in 2003 and murders that's a Middle East respiratory syndrome in 2012 may have begun in bats like a bola, swine flu and many other infectious diseases.

  • Corona viruses Arzu not ick, which means that they jump from animals to people.

  • Chinese researchers have recently published evidence showing that the novel Corona virus closely resembles a similar virus found in bats.

  • But we simply don't know the source of the original outbreak.

  • Yet the Chinese authorities linked early cases to a seafood market in Hunan, where exotic wild animals may have bean kept in close proximity to each other and sold for food.

  • But a new paper published in The Lancet shows that 14 out of 41 patients analyzed by Chinese researchers were not exposed to the seafood market, including the first reported case who became ill on December, the first last year.

  • So what do you think?

  • And what questions do you want answering about the novel Corona virus?

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