by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The COVID-19 has attained pandemic proportions with more than 200 countries affected. These countries have enforced strict lockdown measures to control this novel Coronavirus outbreak but without much success. The virus continues to spread rapidly because of its...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
With the COVID-19 novel coronavirus running rampant with its highly contagious nature and worrying mortality rate, it becomes today necessary to protect yourself and your dear ones from this COVID-19 virus. You can do so by taking some precautions in your daily living...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The SARS-CoV-2 or the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease is extremely contagious and has attained pandemic proportions within just 100 days of its discovery. The discovery happened in December of 2019 in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in China....
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The COVID-19 virus, the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization (WHO) has named it, is transmitted from an infected person to another person who has not been infected, by three modes: Through direct contact Through airborne droplets that have...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
As of 22nd April 2020, with more than 2 million people infected globally by the novel coronavirus and more than 127,000 people dead, the SARS-COV-2, which causes the COVID-19 shows no signs of abating. The coronavirus pandemic continues unabated wrecking a negative...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 has turned out to be a new strain about which we have no previous data or any clue about its properties. It has evolved as a natural process into a new strain after the strains of the Coronavirus that caused the...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
It is believed that the novel coronavirus made its way to humans from bats with the pangolin as the intermediary host. It originated in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province in the People’s Republic of China. During its transmission, it underwent a natural...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The novel coronavirus, a natural evolution of the coronavirus, which also caused the SARS epidemic of 2003 in China and the MERS epidemic of 2012 in Saudi Arabia, is at the forefront of all the world’s problems. This new strain called SARS-CoV-2 by the World Health...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
The contagious nature of the novel coronavirus can be gauged from the fact that it attained pandemic proportions within less than three months of it being discovered. The infectious dangers of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus More than one million cases of COVID-19...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Diseases and Conditions
There are more than 200 virus species that are known to infect humans. Not all are dangerous, but some have held the world on edge because of their extremely contagious nature and a high virulence that kills. The latest to join the ranks of “killers” is the...
