Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Are you at higher risk for coronavirus ?

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) : Are you at higher risk for coronavirus ?

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COVID-19 is a new infections disease discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. was named 2019-nCoV by the WHO (World Health Organization).
Coronavirus were first discovered in the late 1960s. and the other members of this family including SARS-Cov (2003), HCoV NL63 (2004), HKU1 (2005), MERS-CoV (2012), and the last member is SARS CoV-2 (known as 2019-nCov) (2019).
but the last one have resulted in serious respiratory tract infection.

With less information based on clinical expertise, the scientists and doctors don't know a lot about Corona. correspond to WHO, it seems that around 80% of people infected have moderate or mild illness, 15% have serious illness, and 5% of them have respiratory failure.


People who are might be at higher risk for coronavirus :


  • Older adults (The elderly): Adults people aged over 65 years and people who have serious health conditions are at higher risk for COVID-19, as stated by WHO. and the CDC recommends that older people should stay away from the crowds.
  • Pregnant women: Currently, with less information, we do not know if pregnant women have a risk to be infected but the pregnant women undergo changes in their bodies may increase their risk of the infections of COVID-19. They should be monitored and protected since they are known to be at risk from the coronavirus (COVID-19).
  • People with serious health conditions: People with chronic health condition like :


  1. Moderate to severe asthma
  2. Serious heart conditions (High blood pressure for example)
  3. Cancer
  4. Obesity
  5. Diabetes (9% people with diabetes infected with coronavirus died) 
  6. Renal failure
Are more probable to be at risk or die from coronavirus.

Everyone in danger: People can pass the virus through contact between them and other who are more at risk that's why it's obligatory to "STAY HOME" for minimizing the infection and slow it.
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