COVID-19 is upon us, are we ready?

This follows the revelation of more than 121,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 114 countries. The WHO also revealed that more than 4,300 people have died. Out of these number over 3,000 died in China, which is the epicentre of the disease.

The WHO defines a pandemic as the worldwide spread of a new disease. It also refers to a disease, which is prevalent over a whole country.  To show the seriousness of the pandemic, there has been a 13-fold rise in the number of infections and a tripling of the countries affected in the last two weeks, outside China. Italy comes second and has been put on lockdown recently. And most of the suspected cases of COVID-19 in Africa are from Italy, which has seen the number of dead nationally arising by 196 to 827 in a day.