CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is responsible for more fatalities than the SARS coronavirus, despite being in the initial stage of a global pandemic. The first suspected case in the Philippines was investigated on January 22, 2020, and 633 suspected cases were reported as of March 1.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought about undeniable adverse impacts to all sectors of the Philippine economy, with the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) reporting that there are currently 3.5 million unemployed Filipinos and estimating the unemployment rate at 7.4% (2021).

Detailed explanation-3: -Outside China, 794 cases were reported with three deaths6. We present here the first case of COVID-19 infection reported in Kerala, India. On January 27, 2020, a 20 yr old female presented to the Emergency Department in General Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala, with a one-day history of dry cough and sore throat.

Detailed explanation-4: -A cluster of pneumonia of unknown origin was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 [1]. On 12 January 2020, Chinese authorities shared the sequence of a novel coronavirus termed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from some clustered cases [2].