Coronavirus is spreading fast and has hit most of the countries in the world hence has become an epidemic. Because few people understand what the virus is all about we will let people get the characteristics and ensure that they have knowledge about respiratory protection which will be protecting themselves well from contracting the virus. Most of the people know the virus as the coronavirus, and it is in the class as the viruses that cause the common colds, but it can also be referred to as COVID-19. The origin of the coronavirus is traced in Wuhan province in a seafood market, and the virus has the capability of been transmitted from animals to human beings. The COVID-19 is highly infectious, and you need to get the right information about the virus to have the chance of taking the right respiratory protection.
The main reason we are having a high rate of transmission is that the virus is somehow airborne. The lifespan of the virus in the air once an infected persons sneeze or coughs are three hours, and the virus exists in the form of a droplet. The virus has various life spans on different surfaces whereby on plastic and stainless surfaces the virus has a lifespan of three days if it lands on those surfaces. On cardboard, the issue is different whereby the virus can last only for twenty-four hours while on copper it has only four hours. With the knowledge on the lifespan of the COVID-19 virus, you need to know more about the virus, and respiratory protection will be discussed below.
Because coronavirus and common colds virus are in the same group the symptoms and respiratory protection do not differ a lot. The people infected with the COVID-19 virus are experiencing fever hence fever is one of the common symptoms. An infected person also experiences dry cough and shortness of breath because the lungs are affected by the virus. Also, you may get persistent chest pains, trouble in breathing, drowsiness which causes confusion are other symptoms that one experiences. The discussed symptoms would not appear right away after been infected, and therefore it can take two to fourteen days for you to experience all the symptom. During the fourteen days, an infected person can transmit to other people. The senior citizens have a higher chance of contracting the virus and less respiratory protection if they have existing health conditions.
One of the ways that we can use to prevent ourselves from contracting the virus is by ensuring you wash our hand with soap and warm water for twenty seconds. If the soap and water are unavailable you can use hand sanitizers and ensure that the sanitizers have a concentration of around sixty percentage ethanol.