Catholic University of Mozambique

Distance Education Institute

My experience of living under the threat of contracting the disease of

COVID-19

Izaltina Abilio Waluto

Code: 708215427

Course: Public Administration

Subject: Mathematics applied to Public Administration
Year of Attendance: 1st year Class: N
Quelimane, May 2022

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Introduction.......................................................................................................................1
BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT COVID-19...................................................two
Concept..........................................................................................................................two

How did the new coronavirus come about? Discover the most accepted theories about its
origin.................................................................................................................................3
Covid-19 in Mozambique....................................................................................................4
My Experience of Living Under the Threat of COVID-194
In the Media................................................................................................................................4

Are you more prepared for a future health crisis?.....5

Conclusion:.......................................................................................................................6

Bibliography..........................................................................................................................7
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Introduction

The present work will address about COVID-19, which is a virus that creates
problems repertoires in a human being and very easy to infect when you don't
follow the rules of prevention. To this end, it is advisable for any individual to take
great care in their prevention.
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BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT COVID-19

COVID-19 affects each person in different ways. Most infected people

develops the disease with mild to moderate symptoms and recovers without the

need for hospitalization.

common symptoms
ÿ Fever

Cough

ÿ Fatigue
ÿ Loss of taste or smell
ÿ Less common symptoms:

ÿ Sore

throat ÿ

Headache
ÿ Tension and muscle pain
ÿ Diarrhea

ÿ Skin irritation or discoloration of fingers

or toes ÿ Eye irritation or redness

Concept

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Most people who contract COVID-19 have mild to moderate symptoms and
recovers without needing special treatment. However, some become
seriously ill. and need medical assistance.

Virus can spread from an infected person's mouth or nose through

small liquid particles that a person emits when they cough, sneeze, talk, sing or

breathe. These particles range from larger respiratory droplets to larger aerosols.
small.
Anyone can be infected by breathing in the virus if they are around someone with COVID
19 or touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
The virus It spreads more easily indoors and in crowded spaces.

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How did the new coronavirus come about? Discover the most accepted theories about its
origin

At the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, much was discussed about the possible

origins of the virus. virus. In May 2020, the World Health Assembly, in resolution WHA73.1,

asked the

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,

who continue to work in collaboration with other bodies to identify the source of the new
coronavirus.

The main question to be answered was how it was introduced into the human population,

including the possible role of intermediate hosts. Also participating in the study were
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and the World Organization for Animal Health.

According to the WHO, the aim of the discovery was to prevent reinfection with

the virus and the establishment of new zoonomic reservoirs (beings where an agent

lives and multiplies infectious, reproducing in a way that can be transmitted to a

susceptible host),

reducing the risk of emergence and transmission of other zoonoses.

The epidemic started in the city of Wuhan, China, in December 2019, but

quickly spread to the world. The main theories raised included the

contact between a being human and an infected animal and an accident in

a laboratory in China.

In late March, the WHO released a 120-page report, developed by scientists

from China and other parts of the world, which reinforced the natural origin of the epidemic.

the thesis more accepted says that the virus passed from the bat to an intermediate mammal,

and from it to the

human. Transmission from a bat directly to a human has also been

pointed out. as a possible and probable hypothesis.

The report also stated that the transmission of the virus to humans through

food is possible, but a remote hypothesis. The possibility that the virus

has escaped accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was

classified as “extremely unlikely". According to the WHO director-

general, however, the report was a start

in the way of accurately determining the origin of the virus, not an end.

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Depending on what is discovered in new studies that are already

underway, it may be possible to prevent the emergence of new

pandemics.

Covid-19 in Mozambique

Mozambique has recorded the first confirmed case of COVID-19, a condition

caused by
coronavir
(SARS-CoV- day 22 Marc in 2020
us
2), in h
at the
This first case was registered in a male individual, with more than 75

years of age, of Mozambican nationality, who returned from a trip to

the United Kingdom in mid March. It is, therefore, an IMPORTED

CASE of infection by the new

Coronavirus. The diagnosis of this case was performed by the National Institute of

Health using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique.

The patient has mild symptoms, is in home isolation and is in

clinical follow-up by the country's health authorities. Currently, the

tracing of the contacts for monitoring the transmission of the virus.

My experience of living under the threat of COVID-19.

To start with the emergence of the pandemic, it was already a reason to panic,

this through the perception of prevention norms and how information was

transmitted to others
being of the following aspect and cite:

In the Media

The scenario about the care to be taken with the pandemic was and are until then

transmitted from a cautious way in order for people to heed the messages of

contagion, propagation and how

prevent the same. As the use of the mask avoids being always in the
places of many unsuspecting agglomerations.

In the community in general, especially for others who did not have access
to information

of the Media the perception of the methods to avoid the contagion of the pandemic, as well as
the prevention of
itself was perceived in an empirical way.

Ex: it was not new to notice others saying that this disease came to kill us
everyone and no one can be out of the house and not even greet the neighbor. Until

sometimes not was new just to realize that someone in neighborhood X has

symptoms of COVID-19,

you were automatically a victim of stigma and the others were closer to you.

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But over time, through the central government and through MISAU, the creation of teams

multisectoral activities, it was possible to control the situation through the rigor used in the

control of prevention measures.

Are you more prepared for a future health crisis?

Yes I am because with the emergence of this COVID-19 pandemic, the world at

large in particular too, the way of being changed deferentially from what we were

formerly.

As an example: use of the Mascara remained, hygiene by washing hands and

I use alcohol and gel, which currently has been the daily bread for every citizen in the

world all. It should also be noted that in fact I am already prepared for future health

crises with the emergence I learned many ways and precautions on how to prevent.
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Conclusion:

It should be noted that with the assigned work, the student was able to assimilate and retain
knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic, that one of the teaching or
Attention to the next world pandemics that come.
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Bibliography

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid
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0i1 31i433i512j0i512l5j0i131i433.8577j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://butantan.gov.br/covid/butantan-tira-duvida/tira-duvida-noticias/como-surgiu-o-
novo coronavirus-know-the-most-accepted-theories-about-its-origin.
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