We’ll Do Everything Possible To Ensure 2nd Wave Of Pandemic Is Lenient – Ondo State

Ondo State Government has cancelled Cross Over Vigil across the state and shifted the resumption of pupils and students in primary and secondary schools to Jan. 18, 2020.

The Chairman, Ondo State Inter-ministerial Committee on Coronavirus, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi recently revealed this at a news conference in Akure.

According to him, Ondo State is working to ensure it records no substantial case during the second wave of the pandemic, so all hands must be on deck.

He added that government and business offices will continue to open, with strict compliance to COVID-19 precautionary measures, while markets will also continue to operate in line with the laid down protocols.

His words, “Night clubs and relaxation spots must not operate beyond 10 p.m, picnics can operate but in open space and adherence to COVID-19 protocols.

“People above 60 years of age or with existing ailment(s) are strongly advised to remain indoors and disengage from joining any social gathering.”

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Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species vary: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.

Coronaviruses constitute the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae, in the family Coronaviridae, order Nidovirales, and realm Riboviria. They are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a nucleocapsid of helical symmetry. The genome size of coronaviruses ranges from approximately 27 to 34 kilobases, the largest among known RNA viruses. The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”, which refers to the characteristic appearance reminiscent of a crown or a solar corona around the virions (virus particles) when viewed under two-dimensional transmission electron microscopy, due to the surface covering in club-shaped protein spikes.

Human coronaviruses were first discovered in the late 1960s. The earliest ones discovered were an infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two in human patients with the common cold (later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43). Other members of this family have since been identified, including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV) in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections.