All about COVID-19 and the effects of it to our daily lives

​Corona Virus or more commonly known as "COVID-19" is a global pandemic as of

now. This kind of virus can affect everyone. It is a contagious virus that can be easily
transmitted towards human to human. It's harmful because once you are infected you can
suffer from different types of severe respiratory problems such as Pneumonia, which is the
common symptom of this virus. Corona Virus started in Wuhan, China. Though people in
Wuhan didn't expect this would occur and can affect everyone's lives. No one expected it.
People on the internet started arguing about the cause of this spreading virus. Someone
said, because Chinese people were very into 'exotic foods' like they ate bats, worms, cats
and many more animals that should not be eaten by a human. No one still knows the main
reason. Even Doctors and Scientists are still in the process. Since it's already a pandemic, it
already spread all over the world. More than 100,000 peoples' infected and thousands
already died from it. Everyone is aware about this kind of situation.

The Philippines is one of the countries that was affected by COVID-19. Last month,
the Department of Health (DOH) announced the first case of NCOV in the Philippines. As the
Outbreak became a Pandemic, the cases in the Philippines jumped up. The recent number
of Pilipinos' that was infected and positive for COVID-19, was already 140 and 11 already
died. President Duterte already declared a community quarantine for the whole Metro
Manila. Since mostly, of the positive for the virus lived in some cities of Metro Manila, this is
just to ensure the safeness of the people for the whole Philippines. Last week, the
Municipality of Cantilan declared a sudden suspension of classes and some office work. It
said that a resident from Cantilan had seen symptoms related to the virus. Rumors said that
the person was a Seaman, and went to some countries that had COVID-19 cases. Now the
person is under investigation. From that day on, Cantilangnons were shocked. Everyone
immediately ran and went to grocery and pharmacy stores. Everyone was busy seeking
alcohol, hand sanitizers and face masks. 'Panic Buying' and 'Panic Hoarding' this is what we
call. Right now, everywhere you go, you can't buy alcohol and face masks anymore. Lot of
people were hoarding, they bought everything and some didn't even left. That's why, those
who haven't those products were worried. COVID-19 brought a huge impact to our daily
lives. If this virus continues to spread, everything will be complicated.Home quarantines,
suspension of classes, cancelling or postponing events is a must to be implemented if this
virus will continue to grow.

COVID-19 affects everyone and no one is exempted. Everyone must be considerate

about this very serious issue that the world is facing right now. We, humans are the only
respondents. No one is to blame. If we need to prevent this tragedy, we can if we help each
other. We all know what are the consequences of this virus. It can really change our lives
once we are infected. It can make us suffer! The only thing to prevent this is all of us must
help each other. Let's cooperate and not just wait for the cure. Let's help our doctors, nurses
and even the governments by protecting and taking care of ourselves. Let's fight this virus by
cleaning ourselves and our surroundings. Everyone must be healthy so that we can avoid it.
Though no cure is found yet, by doing those, we can probably prevent the virus and let's
unite and pray to God for those who were infected and for hoping that one day, this issue will
disappear so that everyone will be free,safe and happy.
BY: ​SOLANIA, ALLIAH MARIE
​ RADE 10 EINSTEIN
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