What you need to know about Covid-19

About 82% of cases are mild – patients only experience a slight fever, fatigue and a cough.

Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus. It was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan in China. On 7 January 2020, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 was confirmed to have been caused by this Coronavirus Disease 2019 or Covid-19.While the first cases probably involved exposure to an animal source, the virus is spreading from person to person.

Most coronaviruses spread the same way other cold-causing viruses do – through infected people coughing and sneezing, by touching an infected person’s hands or face, or by touching things such as doorknobs that infected people have touched.As at the morning of 18 March, South Africa was declared to have 116 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Most cases were brought in from overseas but there are now increasingly cases of local transmission.

Anyone who comes into contact with people who have travelled to these areas including health workers is thus also at increased risk.

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