The Rights and Obligations of COVID-19 Patients

The new corona virus otherwise codenamed COVID-19 originated in December 2019 from Wuhan, China according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) although there are conspiracy theories about its origin. The disease is codenamed COVID-19 meaning Corona Virus Disease (COVID) that originated in year 2019. It is called the new corona virus because there had been corona virus before but this one is different from the earlier one.

The devastating effects of this virus has left in its trail deaths of so many people cutting across the poor and the rich, young and old, male and female, black and white, developing and developed nations alike. Although it has been found out that its effect on the elderly and patients with existing medical conditions is more devastating than in others; it knows no bounds as the virus attacks everyone who comes in contact with it.

Although it has been medically proven that some carriers of the virus show no signs or symptoms, its symptoms include fever, coughing, sneezing, headache, pains, shortness of breath or respiratory track complications among others, there is no yet known cure for it. It is for these symptoms that have made the WHO and medical practitioners to prescribe means of preventing the further spread of the disease, especially because the virus remains on materials or surfaces from a period of time of between two hours and four days, depending on the nature of the object or surface the virus comes in contact with, except if it is disinfected.

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