Coronavirus, deadly virus outbreak

Personal médico en Wuhan. 

2020, was meant to be one of the most amazing and spectacular years in history. All the people around the world were expecting greatness and incredible situations to be happened, but this year has started with some difficult news. A "new" virus was discovered in Wuham, China. Actually this virus was discovered over the mid's 60's and it was named as "Corona", since if someone looks carefully at a microscope, the virus has a interesting form. This form is related to a crown. So that´s how they named it Coronavirus.

But back at the time there were not cases heard about this lethal virus. Right now, there is a big amount of  difficult situations around the world related to the virus. There are more than 500 cases around the world. That is a very big number, because at the beginning of the year there were not more than 50 cases around the world.

All the people are understandably very nervous about this virus, because of the number of infected people. The airports of China, have made a new system to check body temperatures to look up for more infected people.

The problem is that all the people in the United States are worried, because of the virus. So all the airports will be taking preventive steps and processes to look up for asiatic visitors who land in the biggest airports. Like the ones in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

Right now, there have been reported 17 deaths, because of the lethal virus. A very interesting stat, since the virus took over Wuham, China, parts of Thailand, Japan and one case in South Korea in less than a week.

We will follow, what will happen with this virus. Because also the biggest countries in Europe are worried of the Coronavirus.

Photo: BBC
Text: CNN

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