RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

BANNERGHATTA, BANGALORE
XII AISSCE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023
ENGLISH PROJECT
COVID-19

SUBMITTED BY
Adnan Nagdiwala
12 A

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 Bonafide Certificate
This is to certify that Adnan Nagdiwala of Class 12 ‘A’ has
successfully completed the research on the project-
“COVID-19” under the guidance of Miss Arpita Dutta
ma’am during the academic year 2022-2023 .

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 Index
1 Acknowledgement

2 Introduction

3 Symptoms

4 Transmission of
Covid-19
5 Impact

6 Precautions

7 Interview-1

8 Interview-2

9 Conclusion

10 Bibliography

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 Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my English teacher Ms.Arpita Dutta

ma’am and my school principal Ms.Jeelu Varghese ma’am
for giving me an opportunity to work on this topic and
providing the guidance required on the topic

Secondly, I would like to thank my parents who provided

me with the resources required for the completion of this
project

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 Introduction

A novel coronavirus (CoV) named ‘2019-nCoV’ or ‘2019

novel coronavirus’ or ‘COVID-19’ by the World Health
Organization (WHO) is in charge of the current outbreak of
pneumonia that began at the beginning of December 2019
near in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China .

It has had a devastating effect on the world’s

demographics resulting in more than 5.3 million
deaths worldwide. It has emerged as the most
consequential global health crisis since the era of the
influenza pandemic of 1918.

COVID-19 is a pathogenic virus. From the

phylogenetic analysis carried out with obtainable full
genome sequences, bats occur to be the COVID-19
virus reservoir, but the intermediate host has not
been detected till now. Though three major areas of
work already are ongoing in China to advise our
awareness of the pathogenic origin of the outbreak

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 Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) may appear 2 to 14 days after
exposure. This time after exposure and before
having symptoms is called the incubation
period. You can still spread COVID-19 before
you have symptoms (presymptomatic
transmission). Common signs and symptoms
can include:
 Fever
 Cough
 Tiredness

The symptoms of COVID-19 are variable depending

on the type of variant contracted, ranging from
mild symptoms to critical and possibly fatal illness.

Less common ones including headaches, nasal

congestion and runny nose, muscle pain, sore
throat, diarrhea, eye irritation, and toes swelling or
turning purple, and in moderate to severe cases
breathing difficulties

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 Transmission of COVID-19
Current evidence suggests that the virus spreads
mainly between people who are in close contact
with each other, for example at a conversational
distance. The virus can spread from an infected
person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles
when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe.
Another person can then contract the virus when
infectious particles that pass through the air are
inhaled at short range (this is often called short-
range aerosol or short-range airborne
transmission) or if infectious particles come into
direct contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth
(droplet transmission)

People may also become infected when touching

their eyes, nose or mouth after touching surfaces
or objects that have been contaminated by the
virus.
The virus can also spread in poorly ventilated
and/or crowded indoor settings, where people tend
to spend longer periods of time. This is because
aerosols can remain suspended in the air or travel
farther than conversational distance
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 Impact
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic
loss of human life worldwide and presents an
unprecedented challenge to public health, food
systems and the world of work. The economic
and social disruption caused by the pandemic is
devastating. Millions of people lost their Jobs,
many small scale businesses got shut down or
our at verge of getting close.

Many were forced to stay at home during the early

lockdown phase and eventually most were laid off
as their company incurred losses. This happened
mostly in the manufacturing sector where work
from home was not possible. The risk of Global
Recession became more and more eminent as even
the major economies of the world struggled to
contain the spread of this deadly disease and thus
the their growth turned into huge loss as a result of
which the inflation increased at a rapid rate and
the citizens couldn’t afford even basic supplies

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 Interview-1
I am interviewing Mr. Aziz Nadiadwala who is my friend and
neighbour by asking him some questions about COVID-19.

Question (1) – What was your initial reaction towards the

onset of this disease?
Answer: At first like all other teenagers , I failed to
understand the gravity of this disease. This was partly
because our generation hadn’t ever experienced a colossal
worldwide pandemic before and the it was assumed to be
just like common cold and cough

Question(2) – When did you first start getting worried?

Answer: I first started feeling anxious and worried when I
read how in a span on 15-20 days the infection had
managed to infect more than a million people in China
.However the major red signal went off when COVID-19
was declared a pandemic by the WHO after it had spread
to nearly every country in the world and the lockdown was
initiated. Another major factor contributing to my stress
was the worrisome footage and news articles shows by the
media about the severity of this infection.

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Question (3) – How was the lockdown period ?
Answer: Although I was worried about the disease , I
was pretty elated seeing the schools closed and getting
to sit at home everyday ! In the first half I spent my
time playing video games on my computer and chatting
with my friends since I couldn’t meet them in person.
That started to change when two months passed by and
the pandemic showed no signs of decline. I had started
to feel depressed without having daily fun and having
in-person conversations in school and all the sports
coaching were closed too

Question(4) – What was your reaction to theresumption

of educational institutes and offices?
Answer: I was pretty excited to meet my friends again
after a long span on time and couldn’t wait for the PE
period to play some football! But after a week I realized
how difficult it was for me to adapt to school life again
because I had lost the habit of sitting in a place for long
intervals and my sleep pattern was spoilt too.The most
concerning part was studies , I had not paid enough
attention during the online classes and thus I had huge
knowledge gaps. However in about 2-3 months I was able
to cope-up with school activities.

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 Interview-2
Next I am interviewing Mr. Mohan Singh who is my friend’s
father and also an ex - researchist in WHO by asking him some
questions about COVID-19

Question (1) -What do we know about how SARS-

CoV-2 is spread and why it's spreading so quickly?
Answer: SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus; the
primary way it's transmitted is human-to-human. It
spreads very easily from person to person, and
that's why it's spreading so quickly. When an
infected person talks, coughs, sneezes or simply
breathes out, they release respiratory droplets into
the environment. These droplets are laced with viral
particles that can move on to infect others.
Question (2) - How can I protect myself from the
coronavirus?
Answer: There are several ways you can protect
yourself from SARS-CoV-2. The best way to prevent
acquiring this virus is avoid contact with someone who
has it. That's where face masks, hand hygiene and social
distancing come into play.

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Question (3) - How often and after what activities
should you cleanse your hands?
Answer: Wash your hands with soap and water for at
least 20 seconds after going to the bathroom, before
eating, after blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing
or after touching a surface or object potentially
contaminated with the novel coronavirus.

Question (4) - How does COVID-19 affect children?

Answer: Although we have learned that children of all
ages can become sick with COVID-19, most children
don't become as sick as adults. However, in children, a
multisystem inflammatory syndrome appears to be
linked with COVID-19. This is a condition where
different parts of the body become inflamed, including
the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or
gastrointestinal organs. Children with this syndrome
may have fever and various symptoms, including belly
pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot
eyes or fatigue

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 Conclusion
As evidenced from both the interviews and news reports,
COVID has been tough on almost everyone and causing
enormous damage on all aspects of life. With the closing
of all institutions, people had to stay at home and thus it
created a negative impact on their both, physical and
mental well-being.

However for introverts like Mr.Nadiadwala, it did not

affect much on mental scale and they enjoyed the
lockdown era.

This period was most disastrous for little kids and

teenagers where they missed two years of playing
carefree. The online mode of schooling also proved to be
a major failure and thus this created learning gaps of two
years for most students making them harder to cope with
their current level of studies.

Not all hope is lost though. Currently we are almost back

to the pre-COVID-19 lifestyle and the Global Economy
has started to get better as everything has started to return
to normalcy thus there will be better times in the near
future.

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 Bibliography
https://www.who.int/
https://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-
conditions/coronavirus/symptoms-causes/syc-
20479963

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