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Ziqitza Rajasthan : Simpler Ways to Curb Your Risk of Corona Infection

Let’s get straight to the point: the most effective way to curb your risk of getting infected with Corona is to self-quarantine as much as you can and follow the government prescribed rules. We here at Ziqitza Healthcare ltd strongly advise you to only partake in the methods given in this article after following the conventional personal protective methods or in emergencies.

What To Do If You Don’t Have Access To A Mask?

There might be some situations where you are not able to buy a mask through your nearby stores and medical shops. So, in that case, you can follow these procedures to procure amakeshift mask:

1. Use a Handkerchief- This technique is almost as effective as a cloth mask. Cloth masks tend to be tighter than a Handkerchief mask so make sure you tie it around in a way that it’s tight enough and covers your entire mouth and nasal area. Make sure the Handkerchief is clean.

2. Use an Old T-Shirt- If it’s an emergency and you really have to step out, you can wear an Old T-Shirt and cover your mouth and the nose by stretching its collar up to your nasal area. Make sure the T-Shirt is clean.

3. Use a Biker’s Mask- If you have a biker’s mask lying around; you can use it as a makeshift mask until you get a proper one. Biker’s masks tend to be a little loose so avoid using that as a primary mask. Make sure the biker’s mask is clean

How To Interact With People When Stepping Out During The Pandemic?

First and foremost, you shouldn’t be stepping out in a pandemic. But we understand that there are times where it is absolutely necessary to go outside for essential work. We would advise ordering everything online with zero contact deliveries so that your risk is minimized, but if you do have to step out, these are the rules you should follow:

1. Maintain Six Feet Distance- A six feet distance should be the standard for you maintaining social distancing. A six feet distance greatly reduces the risk of transmission of the virus from an infected person to a healthy person.

2. Avoid Second Hand Contact- You should obviously avoid the first-hand contact, but the second-hand contact can also increase the propagation of the virus. If you’re handling things like metal, plastic or cloth try to sanitize it before handing it off to the other person. Similarly, if you are receiving said materials from others sanitize them before coming in contact with them.

3. Treat People With Respect- Anyone can be an asymptomatic carrier, but that doesn’t give you a pass to misbehave with people. Follow the prescribed rules, sanitize, maintain distance, wear a mask, and call out others for not wearing a mask. But above all, maintain respect. If a pandemic is tough on you, it’s tough on others too.

How To Do A Grocery Run During A Pandemic?

1. Carry A Sanitizer- If you carry a sanitizer with you everywhere, chances are you’ll develop a habit of sanitizing your hands every time you come in contact with an unsolicited object. Keeping a sanitizer with you is handy not only in a pandemic but also in regular life.

2. Sanitize Everything- Whether it be groceries, medicines, or other things, every material has some sort of infection rate. That means the virus strain of COVID-19 can survive outside of a human host on many objects such as metal bars, plastic wrappings, clothes, etc. It can only survive for a short period of time on such materials but there is still a chance of it infecting a human. So be careful and sanitize everything you come in contact with or stuff that comes into your home.

3. Wear Gloves- Gloves are the most effective way to reduce the risk of coming in contact with the virus strain through your hands. A mask and gloves ensure very low chances of the virus entering your body if you do come in contact with the strain. Wash your gloves and masks immediately after their use.

4. Wear Full sleeved Clothing- Although this is just a small practice, wearing full-sleeved clothes does reduce the chance of your skin being exposed during a pandemic. If you can, avoid shorts and cut sleeves while stepping outside as it reduces your exposed body parts’ vulnerability.

5. Don’t Touch Objects Unnecessarily- Not coming in contact with objects when it is not required will not only help you but will also help others if you’re an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. As a thumb rule, keep your hands away from all things until absolutely necessary.

About Ziqitza

Ziqitza Healthcare is a private medical service provider that extends its services like ambulances , medical rooms and mobile medical units across areas that don’t have access to modern healthcare. ZiqitzaLimited threeoriginally started in Rajasthan with the founders are fromfromformingZiqitza Rajasthan to provide world class emergency services in India on lines of 911to rural areas..

Ziqitza Limited now has centers in states like Punjab , Odisha , Madhya Pradesh ,Sikkim , Maharashtra, Karnataka, NCR, Jharkhand and Gujrat Maharashtra, Orissa, Nagaland, Manipur, etc. where a major chunk of people still can’t access services like emergency ambulances, transportation, and much more. The Ziqitza Healthcare ltd call centers in Madhya Pradesh employ over 250 500people and over 150300 in Orissa. In total including all blue-collar/white-collar jobs, Ziqitza Healthcare has provided over10,000 jobs to citizens across India and is the one of the largest Indian social enterprise.

In addition to providing emergency ambulance services of the highest quality in inaccessible areas, Ziqitza Limited also collaborates with the government under various schemes to provide medical services like emergency ambulance services and transportation medical mobile unitsto economically weaker areas.

People can dial the108 helplines operated by Ziqitza to access free critical care. This helpline is in partnership with various state governments and Ziqitza Healthcare ltd under theNational Health Mission (NHM) to provide emergency care services for all citizens free of cost. Building up more on that, Ziqitza Healthcare also operates an emergency transportationhelpline 102in public private partnership to provide free medical transportation to pregnant women under the JSSK program launched in June 2011.

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As Coronavirus Spreads from China, Scientists See Grim Reminders

Less than a month after the first few cases of a new respiratory illness were reported in Wuhan, China, travelers have carried the virus to at least four other countries, including the United States. More than 500 people are known to have been infected, at least 17 have died — and the world is bracing itself for what might come next.

On Wednesday, experts at the World Health Organization decided to postpone until Thursday a decision on whether the current outbreak constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern,” a label given to serious public health events that endanger international public health” and “potentially require a coordinated international response.”

A vote by W.H.O.’s emergency committee was split down the middle, its chairman said, and the group concluded that it did not have enough information to make a decision.

“The decision about whether or not to declare a public health emergency of international concern is one I take extremely seriously, and one I am only prepared to make with appropriate consideration of all the evidence,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, W.H.O.’s director general, said at news briefing.

Adding that a W.H.O. team was in China gathering information, he said, “We will have much more to say tomorrow

But even as the W.H.O. debated its decision, officials in China began closing transportation links from and within Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. The move was a significant escalation in the country’s attempts to contain the spread of the virus as the Lunar New Year approaches and holiday travel commences.

Dr. Tedros and W.H.O. officials at the briefing said they had not advised China to close Wuhan, but nonetheless expressed support for the decision, saying it could protect other parts of China and other countries.

Public health officials around the world are on alert because the new infection is caused by a coronavirus, from the same family that caused outbreaks of SARS and MERS, killing hundreds of people in dozens of countries.

The W.H.O. has already advised governments to be prepared for the disease, to be vigilant and ready to test anyone with symptoms like cough and fever who has traveled to affected regions. Air travel is expected to surge as the Lunar New Year approaches this weekend.

More important than an emergency declaration is the need for more data on the outbreak, said Jennifer B. Nuzzo of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Scientists still do not have enough information about the severity of the disease, she said.

“I want to see from the emergency committee all the information on the table and an assessment of what the risk really is,” Dr. Nuzzo said. “To me, that’s far more important than their declaration.”

One purpose of an emergency declaration is to draw world attention to an outbreak, so that governments can prepare and also provide needed help.

“There’s already a high level of global attention,” Dr. Nuzzo said, adding that she was not sure how much a declaration would have changed things.

Several countries have already begun screening travelers from China for fever and cough. Airports in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco last week started to screen arriving flights from Wuhan, and airports in Atlanta and Chicago will begin doing so this week.

“Data shows that entry screening requires a tremendous amount of resources and is not tremendously effective,” Dr. Nuzzo said.

North Korea has suspended tourism because of the outbreak, according to Reuters.

Important questions about the outbreak are still unanswered, and W.H.O.’s expert committee now must grapple with significant unknowns.

“We don’t know how many people are infected,” said Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the W.H.O. “The more you test, the more you will find people who are infected. We don’t know if there are asymptomatic cases. If they are asymptomatic, are they contagious?”

Broad studies to test for evidence of infection, past and present, would give a true picture of how many people have been exposed to the virus.

The virus causes a pneumonialike illness, with coughing and fever in some people but not all. The severity matters: If there are cases with mild illness or no symptoms at all, they may go undetected, and those people will keep working, shopping and traveling, possibly infecting others.

A milder illness has the potential to spread farther and cause longer-lasting outbreaks than one with more obvious symptoms, according to Dr. Mark R. Denison, an infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who studies coronaviruses.

Compared to SARS and MERS, the Wuhan illness so far does seem less severe, he said.

SARS, which began in live-animal markets in China in 2002, quickly spread to dozens of countries, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing nearly 800. The virus is thought to have originated in bats and spread to civet cats that were being sold for consumption.

The civets spread the virus to humans, who infected one another through respiratory secretions and also exposure to feces.

SARS often caused severe illness, so cases were detectable, Dr. Denison said; aggressive public health measures, including quarantines and travel restrictions, helped stamp out the epidemic.

But the travel bans, not to mention widespread fear and distrust, took a heavy economic toll on China, and since then international authorities have become hesitant about taking drastic steps to quell outbreaks.

MERS cases have been occurring in the Middle East since 2012, mainly in people who have been exposed to camels, which were most likely infected by bats. Human-to-human transmission does occur, and some spread has happened in hospitals.

As of November, there had been 2,494 cases of MERS in the last seven years, mostly in Saudi Arabia. The death rate is 34 percent, but may actually be lower if there are mild cases of the disease that have not been detected or counted.

Dr. Denison described the new Wuhan coronavirus as “sort of a first cousin of SARS,” more closely related to it than to MERS, based on its genetic sequence.

Researchers do not know just how contagious the Wuhan coronavirus is. The first people to be infected are thought to have contracted it at a market in Wuhan that sold meat, fish and live animals.

That market has been shut down and disinfected. Which animal might have been carrying the virus is not yet known.

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Initially, the illness appeared to spread only from animals to people. Then, experts said there was evidence of “limited” human-to-human transmission. Now, more cases are emerging among people with no known exposure to the animal markets, and in medical staff members caring for infected patients.

“Now that you have a cluster of 14 health care workers infected, it suggests that the potential for spread is much greater,” said Dr. Ian W. Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York, who has researched SARS and MERS.

“I saw film footage of a hospital lobby in Wuhan, and they are wearing full personal protective equipment from head to toe,” he said. “They are taking it very seriously. I still don’t think this is as bad as SARS, but it’s worse than they originally portrayed it.”

Dr. Denison said that with both SARS and MERS, there were episodes in which individual patients became “super-spreaders” who infected many other people, for unknown reasons.

“That’s a wild card we don’t know, the capacity to have multiple transmissions from one person,” Dr. Denison said. “There was no evidence they had dramatically different virus.”

It is possible, he said, that super-spreaders had received a high dose of the virus and had more of it to transmit. Alternatively, their immune systems might have not been able to control the virus, allowing it to multiply and spread extensively in their bodies, making them more contagious.

Although no drugs have been approved specifically to treat coronavirus diseases, Dr. Denison said that in animal studies, an antiviral called remdesivir appeared effective. He has been working with other researchers to develop treatments.

Mr. Jasarevic said that antivirals were being tested against MERS, but that none had been approved yet.

How and why viruses that have peacefully coexisted with their animal hosts for a long time strike out for new territory — us — is not well understood.

Coronaviruses often inhabit bats without harming them, and sometimes move into other animal species and from them to humans.

In places that bring multiple animal species together with lots of people — like the food markets in Wuhan and in other parts of China that sell live mammals and birds, along with meat and fish — viruses can pass back and forth between species, mutating as they go. Along the way, they may become able to infect humans.

“Coronaviruses have repeatedly shown an ability to probe across species and cause new animal and human diseases,” Dr. Denison said.

To go successfully from animal hosts to people, the viruses need to adapt in several ways: They must gain the ability to invade human cells, evade the immune system, replicate inside the human body and spread to others.

The move is often described as “jumping” into humans, but that is an oversimplification, Dr. Denison said. “The process it has to go through is more like high hurdles with a thousand hurdles along the way,” he said.

Still, the new outbreak does not greatly surprise him: “This was a matter of not if, but when.”

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