Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Secrets Revealed About the Covid-19 Pandemic. A complete Rational Guide of its Evolution, Expansion, Symptoms and First Defense

Identifying the Virus
Recognizing the Virus One of the prime differences between SARS and this
present outbreak is how rapidly it was announced and how easily it was
detected by scientists. On the 31
st
of December, 2019, about three weeks after
the first event was known, China told the World Health Organization about
the new virus. On January 7, they identified the virus behind the outbreak.
This is as rapid as any other advanced nation could have found it.
Genome sequencing has a huge impact— it helps many countries to develop
virus tests early on and to research the virus. After SARS the disease was
kept under wraps by China. The disease was first identified officially in
February 2003 but by that time five people had died and 300 had fallen ill
from the disease in Guangdong province of China. It was also not until five
months after the first SARS outbreak began that American and Canadian
scientists revealed that they had sequenced the genome that was believed to
be the source of that virus. Health authorities had been struggling with a lack
of knowledge about what the virus was back in 2003.
And china has done things differently this time around. Beijing not only had
the scientific ability to classify the genome but it also taught other countries
about it. Yet concerns also emerged about how open China has been. There
are still some worried that the problem's size might be much worse than the
official figures let on. Not all corona viruses are fatal— those that are unique
to humans, including common cold, are often considered unreliable.
Nevertheless, the corona viruses which pose a pandemic risk are those which

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hang out in animals. Because these viruses didn't exist in humans before,
there is no clear immunity in humans to these viruses.

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